Morality Quotes

"Avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison."

- Gautama Buddha

"It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this."

- W.C. Prime, 1888

"And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."

- Micah 6:8

"There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy."

- Erwin W. Lutzer

"Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience."

- John Bevere

"One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others."

- David A. Bednar

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

- Samuel Ullman

"No matter how you excel in the art of “Ti” (Okinawan precursor to Karate), and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and humanity as observed in daily life."

- Junsoku Uekata

"You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone."

- Helio Gracie

"Never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose."

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

"Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy."

- John Trapp

"Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."

- Jane Addams

"My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness, and being on time. All very important lessons."

- Roger Moore

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham."

- Anna Sewell

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."

- Leo Tolstoy

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."

- Paul McCartney

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing"

- Ted

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

- Oscar Wilde

"Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course."

- Adrian Cadbury

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

- Thomas Sowell

"“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”"

- Peter Marshall

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions."

- Ben Hecht

"It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it."

- Patrick Henry

"Always stay humble and kind / When the dreams you’re dreaming come to you / When the work you put in is realized. / Let yourself feel the pride but always stay humble and kind."

- Tim McGraw, Humble and Kind