Quotes about Morality

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.

Thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man [...] I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit.

My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.

Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.