Quotes about Morality
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
— Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
— Samuel Johnson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
— William Faulkner
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
— Confucius
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
— Desmond Tutu
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
— GK Chesterton