Moral Choices Quotes

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

I've never even come close to having a one-night stand.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

I'm definitely not grateful [for the sex tape]. If I had one regret, that would be it. If I were to do it again and live my life again, I wouldn't do that again. If I had the information and known better, I would have done better.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.