Moral Quotes

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.