Quotes about Morality
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
- Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
- Cicero
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
Character is what a man is in the dark.
- DL Moody
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
- Madeleine L'Engle
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
- Walt Disney
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- Aristotle
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
- Stephen Covey
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
- Henry Ward Beecher