Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something and you're fairly convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.