Quotes about Morality
As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.
— Epictetus
For determining the rational and the irrational, we employ not only our estimates of the value of external things, but also the criterion of that which is in keeping with one's own character.
— Epictetus
And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?
— Epictetus
you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.
— Epictetus
Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.
— Epictetus
A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.
— Epictetus
He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.
— Epictetus
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
— Amy Grant
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
— Andrew Carnegie
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
— Pope Benedict XVI
To seek the highest good is to live well.
— St. Augustine
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
— Lao Tzu