Quotes About Morals

Biblical stories play an important role in the elementary child's search for answers.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

What you stand for is what makes you stand out, not your standing. So, I never worry about my standing, only my stand.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

When you base your life on principle, 99% of your decisions are already made.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

If you don't have anything to stand up for, you fall for everything.

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

My faith and family has helped me a great deal in that it helps me to live to a different standard.

I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that my family stands on. If we do things on a consistent basis that are positive, it'll all work out.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.