Top 200 Morality Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

152. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

153. “Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

154. “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

155. “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact, sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.”

— David Cottrell

156. “The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

157. “Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.”

— Earl Nightingale

158. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

— Mother Teresa

159. “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

160. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

161. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

162. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

163. “Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”

— John Piper

164. “Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.”

— Marcus Aurelius

165. “To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.”

— Pope Francis

166. “If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.”

— Thomas S. Monson

167. “The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.”

— Confucius

168. “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

169. “To whom much is given, from him much will be required.”

— Luke the Evangelist

170. “Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

171. “Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.”

— Thubten Yeshe

172. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

173. “Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”

— Hippocrates

174. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

175. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

176. “Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.”

— Thomas S. Monson

177. “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

178. “You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.”

— Pope Francis

179. “Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

180. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

181. “The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity. For this reason, he has integrity. The person of inferior integrity never loses sight of his integrity; For this reason, he lacks integrity.”

— Lao Tzu

182. “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”

— Leo Tolstoy

183. “We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.”

— John F. MacArthur

184. “Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

185. “In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.”

— Elie Wiesel

186. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

187. “Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

188. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”

— Confucius

189. “If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

190. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

191. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

192. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

— Maya Angelou

193. “Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.”

— Saint Augustine

194. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

— Confucius

195. “Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don’t worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don’t worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.”

— Confucius

196. “The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

197. “Greed has poisoned men’s souls.”

— Charlie Chaplin

198. “We should respect all people.”

— Helen Keller

199. “Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

200. “God’s goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.”

— William Tyndale