Quotes about Morality

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

As you reflect on your values, you should settle what you believe in three key areas: Ethical values - What does it mean to do the right thing for the right reason? Relational values - How do you build an environment of trust and respect with others? Success values - What goals are worth spending your life on?

We don't get to pick our talents or IQ. But we do choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices—to cop out or dig out of a hard situation, to bend the truth or stand under the weight of it, to take the easy money or pay the price.

Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.