Top 200 Morality Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Justice Quotes

2. “But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Evil Quotes

3. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity

4. “Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes, Values Quotes

5. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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6. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Wise Quotes

7. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

8. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

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9. “Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

— Immanuel Kant

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10. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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11. “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

12. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Care Quotes

13. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Compassion Quotes

14. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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15. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

— Desmond Tutu

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16. “Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Virtue Quotes, Lonely Quotes

17. “To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

18. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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19. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

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20. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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21. “Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

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22. “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes

23. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

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24. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

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25. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Truth Quotes

26. “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Truth Quotes

27. “An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”

— Immanuel Kant

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28. “Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

— Michael Josephson

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Character Quotes

29. “To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

30. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Peace Quotes, Healing Quotes

31. “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”

— Pope Francis

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32. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

33. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

35. “If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

— C. S. Lewis

36. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

37. “All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes, Peace Quotes, Compassion Quotes

38. “The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.”

— Immanuel Kant

39. “Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”

— Leo Tolstoy

40. “The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes, Compassion Quotes

41. “Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

42. “Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Growth Quotes

43. “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

44. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Personality Quotes, Important Quotes

45. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Grace Quotes

46. “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

47. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”

— Seneca

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48. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on them?”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Practice Quotes, Helping Quotes, Virtue Quotes

49. “Hate destroys the hater.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

50. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

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