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Quotes About Morals

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
~ William Godwin
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~ Joseph Lancaster
Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have trouble reaching out to them - or keep them once others have entered the market.
~ Michael Gerber
When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
~ Dick Van Dyke
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.
~ Steven James
Cossics do not understand Mewts. They ascribe to them the morals and values of Cos. This is a grave mistake. I am not Cossic, and I can appreciate the Mewtish mind only too well. The Cossic nobleman is a thinker; honourable, loyal, and traditional, but he keeps emotion in check. Challis Hespereth demands sex as a sacrifice, not love. The Mewt, on the other hand, is a passionate individual; he feels. Love to him is all; it is his god. He would die for for it.
~ Storm Constantine
We all want something. Some people take the right path, and some people don't.
~ Christopher Markus
There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.
~ Harlan Ellison
I've always done things according to my principles and morals and some things just don't fit in.
~ Ayesha Takia
Almost from the beginning, Lucy Stone had run-ins with the established code of female propriety. Every Sunday morning the students had to sit through a long chapel service. Lucy, who suffered from headaches, took her hat off one morning. She was charged by the Ladies' Board, which supervised the manners and morals of the coeds, with violating the Bible's teach that women must keep their heads covered in church.
~ Miriam Gurko
strict mathematical form, with propositions, proofs, corollaries, lemmas, scholiums, and the like. However, the subject matter of metaphysics and of morals is not very satisfactorily
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Je?li chcesz wychowa? zagorza?ego ateist?, musisz udziela? mu surowych lekcji religii. To zawsze owocuje dobrymi skutkami.
~ N.H. Kleinbaum
They were respected by their neighbours for their conformity to the fashion of the day, for their morals, for their wealth, and for their excellence at all kinds of sport.
~ Nancy Mitford
Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My middle class values are intact.
~ Paresh Rawal
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
~ Thomas Hardy
She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.
~ Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
~ Thomas Hardy
though his morals had hardly been applauded, disapproval of them had frequently been tempered with a smile.
~ Thomas Hardy
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
ceea ce te'nalta, ceea ce iti sporeste sentimentul de putere si vigoare si dominare, la dracu asta'i adevarul – chiar daca vazut din punctul de vedere al moralei ar fi de zece ori minciuna. ce vreau sa spun este ca un neadevar de natura a produce o sporire a puterii se poate masura cu orice adevar virtuos dar sterp.
~ Thomas Mann
Your behavior inside your home is the real indicator of your character. Not in the workplace, not in school. Sure, it's nice to look good when you leave your home, and make a bella figure. But in terms of your identity, the most important thing is who you are with your parents, with your children, with your cousins. Th most important thing is how you behave with he people who really matter.
~ Katherine Wilson
Character isn't built, it's bred.
~ Kathleen Tessaro