Top 200 Morality Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

— Samuel Johnson

102. “You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

— John Wooden

103. “Life is God’s gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

— A. R. Bernard

104. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

105. “Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred – this is the law Eternal.”

— Buddha

106. “Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.”

— Thomas S. Monson

107. “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”

— Joyce Meyer

108. “What is left when honor is lost?”

— Publilius Syrus

109. “In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

110. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

— Voltaire

111. “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

— Mark Twain

112. “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

113. “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.”

— Gary L. Francione

114. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

— William Shakespeare

115. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

116. “We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.”

— Thomas S. Monson

117. “The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”

— D.L. Moody

118. “Sin will take you farther than you ever expected to go; it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay, and it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay.”

— Kay Arthur

119. “To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

120. “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”

— Aristotle

121. “Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”

— Tony Dungy

122. “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

123. “All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

124. “Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.”

— Bertrand Russell

125. “Beneficence is a duty.”

— Immanuel Kant

126. “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

— Howard Zinn

127. “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”

— Pope John Paul II

128. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

129. “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.”

— Leo Tolstoy

130. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV

131. “Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

132. “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

133. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

— William Wilberforce

134. “Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

135. “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

— Rick Warren

136. “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

137. “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

— Elie Wiesel

138. “The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”

— Immanuel Kant

139. “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

140. “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

141. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

— Mark Twain

142. “Use money and love people. Don’t love money and use people.”

— Joseph Prince

143. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

144. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

— Charles Dickens

145. “What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.”

— Omar Suleiman

146. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

— Voltaire

147. “Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.”

— Christopher Hitchens

148. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

— Confucius

149. “You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

150. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.