Character Quote by Joseph Goldstein

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and even our…

— Walter Isaacson

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…

— TS Eliot

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of…

— Sylvia Boorstein

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize…

— George Eliot

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

— George Washington

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

“If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have…

— Dada Bhagwan

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

— George Washington