Famous Moral Quotes in English with Images

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

The people who are regard as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. opinions alter, manners change, creed rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

- James A. Froude Quotes

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

- Moral Quotes by A. J. Ayer Download or Share

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Do not be too moral.  You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality.  Be not simply good; be good for something.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality.  The first, and last, and closest trail question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility.  What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.