Moral Quotes

4082 Moral quotes by 2158 unique authors

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement. — Tony Dungy
Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well. — Tony Dungy
Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed. — Tony Dungy
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money. — Tony Hsieh
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. — Robert E. Lee
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders… — John Dos Passos
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life — Robert Mapplethorpe
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous… — James E. Faust
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. — James Q. Wilson
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress.… — John Foster Dulles
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. — Howard Mumford Jones
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these… — W. Edwards Deming
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. — Avital Ronell
Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow… — Michael Strong
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular… — John Haynes Holmes
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any… — Renata Adler
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. — Margaret Sanger
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.… — Mortimer Adler
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same… — Luciano Berio
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. — Louisa May Alcott

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