Quotes about Morality
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
— Thomas Jefferson
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
— Billy Graham
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
— Samuel Johnson
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
— St. Basil
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
— Henry David Thoreau
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
— Theodore Roosevelt
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
— George H. W. Bush
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— CS Lewis
Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.
— Ezra Taft Benson
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan