Morals are principles concerning right or wrong and good or bad. It's an important principle to take note of. And only the person in their right mind knows how to manifest proper conduct and correct judgment. May these quotes about morality give you insights that will help you thoroughly understand the importance of morals and values to improve yourself.
1. “You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” – H.L. Mencken
2. “The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” – Ayn Rand
3. “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
4. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy
5. “We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
6. “Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.” – Thomas Hardy
7. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
8. “Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.” – Maude Royden
9. “It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” – Richard Bach
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10. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
11. “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” – Isaac Asimov
12. “If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.” – Bill Watterson
13. “A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures. That is the basis of all human morality.” – John F. Kennedy
14. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
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15. “Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.” – Thomas Guthrie
16. “It is possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” – Bertrand Russell
17. “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller
18. “The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.” – Bertrand Russell
19. “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.” – Eugene V. Debs
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20. “So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” – Ernest Hemingway
21. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” – G.K. Chesterton
22. “Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.” – John Ruskin
23. “Attempting to slake a spiritual thirst with materialism is like drinking water from the sea. It turns immediate gratification into a life-threatening condition.” – Arthur Simon
24. “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.” – Laurence Sterne
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25. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein
26. “You'd better live every day like it's your last day, because one day you're going to be right.” – Ray Charles
27. “My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” – J. Brotherton
28. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
30. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Malcolm Forbes
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31. “The average human heart beats one hundred thousand times a day. Make those beats count.” – Anonymous
32. “The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” – John Ruskin
33. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
34. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde
35. “It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.” – Madeleine L'engle
36. “Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making people creative and powerful.” – Charles Steinmetz
37. “If you want to be great, you must serve willingly and love greatly.” – Cornel West
38. “What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?” – Brian Tracy
39. “For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.” – Thomas A Kempis
40. “It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” – Henry Ward Beecher
41. “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” – Immanuel Kant
42. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
43. “If you can't do something smart, do something right.” – Joss Whedon
44. “That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” – Denis Waitley
45. “I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.” – Woodrow Wilson
46. “The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.” – Jim Butcher
48. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.” – William Arthur Ward
49. “One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.” – Lewis Mumford
50. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
51. “Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
52. “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” – Corrie ten Boom
53. “I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough and that without it, intellect is poverty.” – Mark Twain
54. “Who you are, what your values are, and what you stand for are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.” – Anne M. Mulcahy
55. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.” – Confucius
56. “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.” – George Lorimer
57. “Our whole business in this life is to restore to health the eyes of the heart, whereby God may be seen.” – Augustine
58. “You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.” – Seth Parker
59. “There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.” – Donita K. Paul
60. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
61. “We need to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar Bradley
62. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery
63. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
64. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
65. “It's never too late to become what you might have been.” – George Eliot
66. “It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of humanity, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.” – Leo Buscaglia
67. “Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.” – Honoré de Balzac
68. “What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.” – Albert Einstein
69. “We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.” – Jonathan Sacks
70. “The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.” – Patrick Henry
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2. “The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” – Ayn Rand
3. “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
4. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy
5. “We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
6. “Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.” – Thomas Hardy
7. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
8. “Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.” – Maude Royden
9. “It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” – Richard Bach
11. “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” – Isaac Asimov
12. “If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.” – Bill Watterson
13. “A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures. That is the basis of all human morality.” – John F. Kennedy
14. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
16. “It is possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” – Bertrand Russell
17. “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller
18. “The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.” – Bertrand Russell
19. “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.” – Eugene V. Debs
21. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” – G.K. Chesterton
22. “Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.” – John Ruskin
23. “Attempting to slake a spiritual thirst with materialism is like drinking water from the sea. It turns immediate gratification into a life-threatening condition.” – Arthur Simon
24. “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.” – Laurence Sterne
26. “You'd better live every day like it's your last day, because one day you're going to be right.” – Ray Charles
27. “My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” – J. Brotherton
28. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
30. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Malcolm Forbes
More Morality Quotes
31. “The average human heart beats one hundred thousand times a day. Make those beats count.” – Anonymous
32. “The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” – John Ruskin
33. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
34. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde
35. “It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.” – Madeleine L'engle
36. “Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making people creative and powerful.” – Charles Steinmetz
37. “If you want to be great, you must serve willingly and love greatly.” – Cornel West
38. “What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?” – Brian Tracy
39. “For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.” – Thomas A Kempis
40. “It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” – Henry Ward Beecher
41. “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” – Immanuel Kant
42. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
43. “If you can't do something smart, do something right.” – Joss Whedon
44. “That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” – Denis Waitley
45. “I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.” – Woodrow Wilson
46. “The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.” – Jim Butcher
48. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.” – William Arthur Ward
49. “One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.” – Lewis Mumford
50. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
51. “Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
52. “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” – Corrie ten Boom
53. “I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough and that without it, intellect is poverty.” – Mark Twain
54. “Who you are, what your values are, and what you stand for are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.” – Anne M. Mulcahy
55. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.” – Confucius
56. “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.” – George Lorimer
57. “Our whole business in this life is to restore to health the eyes of the heart, whereby God may be seen.” – Augustine
58. “You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.” – Seth Parker
59. “There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.” – Donita K. Paul
60. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
61. “We need to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar Bradley
62. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery
63. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
64. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
65. “It's never too late to become what you might have been.” – George Eliot
66. “It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of humanity, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.” – Leo Buscaglia
67. “Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.” – Honoré de Balzac
68. “What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.” – Albert Einstein
69. “We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.” – Jonathan Sacks
70. “The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.” – Patrick Henry
Share these Quotes on Morality and Ethics with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.