Moral Lesson Quotes

Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

The words of Jesus, as distinguishable from the matter in which they are embedded as diamonds in dunghills. A more precious morsel of ethics was never seen.

He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

At Length the Fox turnes Monk.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.