Quotes About Morals

One of the reasons that may force you walk away from great opportunities is when your values are keep violated...

Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you

Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.

Do you know what morals are, Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions …

you must blackmail Julius. Come, come, don't make a fuss! Blackmail is a wholesome institution, necessary for the maintenance of morals.

Mamma loves morals," she said, at eleven, "Papa loves cats.

if we lost all our hard-won knowledge and all our archives, and all our ethics and morals, in some Marquez-like fit of collective amnesia, and had to reconstruct everything essential from scratch, it is difficult to imagine at what point we would need to remind or reassure ourselves that Jesus was born of a virgin.

First published in February 1753, Richardson's last epistolary novel was a response to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, which in turn had parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels.

descriptive ethics is a sociological discipline that attempts to describe the morals of a particular society, often by studying other cultures.

The principle of biblical inerrancy follows logically from this principle of divine authorship. After all, God cannot lie, and he cannot make mistakes. Since the Bible is divinely inspired, it must be without error in everything that its divine and human authors affirm to be true. This means that biblical inerrancy is a mystery even broader in scope than infallibility, which guarantees for us that the Church will always teach the truth concerning faith and morals.

It is character, not numbers, that make the world go 'round.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for   though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on   the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their   precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a   foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated   doctrine, like a body without a head.

Morals concern nothing less than the whole character, and the whole character is identical with the man in all his concrete make-up and manifestations. To possess virtue does not signify to have cultivated a few namable and exclusive traits; it means to be fully and adequately what one is capable of becoming through association with others in all the offices of life. The moral and the social quality of conduct are, in the last analysis, identical with each other.

Traditional values are big in my life.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

The honeybee makes the honey, and the dirty fly makes the dirt. Which, whatever is that reflects itself. If the dirty fly goes anywhere, it makes the dirt while the honeybee makes the honey. In that context that the squeeze of our mental, intellectual, character, and morals comes to our eyes is the evil people. It is the essence of our nation, and we shall have to taste that until we are not as the honeybee.

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

men can be pigs, but also the opposite. what is the opposite of a pig?

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.