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Quotes about Morality

One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace
— Abraham Lincoln