Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old moral compass quotes, moral compass sayings, and moral compass proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.Alfred Adler
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Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books.Robert Bolt
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I think I did something for the worst possible reason--just because I could.Bill Clinton
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.Charles Darwin
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.T.S. Eliot
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The metaphor of a moral compass is a bit misleading since there is no debate about the possibility of more than one "true north," whereas there are ongoing debates about whether there might be equally valid moral laws pointing in conflicting directionsElizabeth V. Spelman
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The trouble is, even if you do believe in God, and in divinely sanctioned moral norms, there is still not getting away from humans themselves having to draw the moral boundaries.Kenan Malik
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The moral compass was only ever a means to an end and the end is survival of the individuals who use it most creatively.Derek Robertson
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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitable fall to pieces.Christopher Dawson
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.John E. Burns
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Bertrand Russell
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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.D.H. Lawrence
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Do not be too moral. You might cheat yourself out of much life. Aim high above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.Ernest Hemingway