Morality

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Roy T. Bennett

Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.

Mother Teresa

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Aeschylus

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Aeschylus

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

Confucius

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Saint Augustine

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

Mahatma Gandhi

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

C.S Lewis

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

C.S Lewis

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

Immanuel Kant

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

All criminals turn preachers when they are under the gallows.

Italian proverbs

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Bible

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Chinese proverbs