Quotes about Morality
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.
— Herman Melville
My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.
— Herman Melville
Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.
— Herman Melville
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.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
— James Faust
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
— George Washington
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
— John Wooden
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
— Mark Twain
I have tried so hard to do right.
— Grover Cleveland
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
— Ulysses S. Grant
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
— Jonathan Edwards