Quotes About Morality

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

A first impulse was never a crime.