Quotations about Morality

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8 Quotes Found

"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
	-Boy Scouts of America, in "Scout Oath"
"A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent."
	-Boy Scouts of America, in "Scout Law"
"However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose."
	-Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?"
	-Oliver Goldsmith
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
	-John Baptiste Moliére (1622 - 1673), French playwright
"Be not simply good - be good for something."
	-Henry David Thoreau, American writer & philosopher
"Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood."
	-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968), American civil rights leader
"By all means, take the moral high ground - all that heavenly backlighting makes you a much easier target."
	-Solomon Short