Quotes About Morality

If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Life is not a gift for being good, anymore than, death is punishment for being evil.

To New York voters, Lehman's courage and honesty shone through. Herbert Lehman, the labor official George Meany wrote, "was the ideal public servant … He had none of the average politician's guile, the average diplomat's evasiveness, the average banker's greed, or the average statesman's aloofness." For Herbert Lehman, life was always about public service.

Let's qualify. A worthless guy who likes insecure women wants to mistreat her so he can feel powerful. Why is he worthless? Because he has no moral compass. To him, cruelty is a good thing. (That alone makes him worthless.)

Saintly sacrifice is not required, though self-reflection and self-education are.

If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.

He did not look like an archangel—if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.

Could she live with herself, cowering, while the world burned.

I thought of a lot of things to do, but they wouldn't work. They all hurt some one else.

After all, we do seem attached to sin and there are so many people busy making sin unattractive. It is good to find someone who takes the other road.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

Ability will get you success; character will keep you successful.

If you want to build a positive attitude, then associate with people of high moral character and read books that lead you to positive thinking.

Some people consider themselves a shade better because they do not support the wrong; however, they lack the conviction to oppose. They do not realize that by not opposing they are actually supporting.

Feeling good is a natural outcome of doing good; and doing good is a natural outcome of being good.

If rebirth exists, that is all right: I will simply try to continue practicing everything good and refrain from everything bad through my next life. If there is no rebirth, I will have nothing to do after my death and I will have no need to consider my practice. This was my view of rebirth for most of my life as a Buddhist.

sometimes in life you have to do things your not proud of!