Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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

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

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

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

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?

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a role that seemed perfect for him. I like the idea of him as one of the few moral centres of the Wire show.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.