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Quotes About Morality

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.
~ Maya Angelou
See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
The needs of a society determine its ethics
~ Maya Angelou
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.
~ Maya Angelou
Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.
~ Maya Angelou
You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.
~ Maya Angelou
See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice.
~ Maya Angelou
Teachers of my early youth Taught forgiveness stressed the truth Here then is my Christian lack: If I'm struck then I'll strike back.
~ Maya Angelou
She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.
~ Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
~ Maya Angelou
Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The
~ Maya Angelou
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
~ Maya Angelou
Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty.
~ Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." She turned out the light and I patted my son's body lightly and went back to sleep.
~ Maya Angelou
It's all right if we do a little robbing now." This belief appeals particularly to one who is unable to compete legally with his fellow citizens.
~ Maya Angelou
If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.
~ Maya Angelou
Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.
~ Maya Angelou
The minister's voice was a pendulum. Swinging for left and down and right and down and left and-How can you claim to be my brother, and hate me? Is that Charity? How can you claim to be my sister and despise me? Is that supposed to be Charity? How can you claim to be my friend and misuse and wrongfully abuse me? Is that Charity?...'now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
~ Maya Angelou
But, don't let anybody make you do something you don't think is right. Your mother already raised you. Stay steady. And if that makes somebody mad, they can scratch their mad place and get glad.
~ Maya Angelou
If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance.
~ Maya Angelou