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Morality Quotes

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modesty, and morality, for the world is full of the rarest gems.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress everybody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

To harm another is to harm oneself.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.