Top 1200 Moral Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

All elections are about choices, and good campaigns will make those choices clear.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.

People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

I think if you're trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o'clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren't going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we're making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

We live in a society where healthy choices aren't usually the most popular choices.

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.