30 Best and Short Decent Quotes and Sayings on Life

Being a decent individual without self-understanding and maturity remains a moral code of conduct.

Without a beautiful heart, exhibiting decent behavior on the outside is short-lived and makes us a hypocrite.

All the indecent dark desires of the mind enter through the back door. Hence the world talks about decency yet filled with crime and corruption at all levels.

Keep reading our famous and popular decent quotes from acclaimed authors, philosophers, and successful personalities worldwide to know what they have got to say on ‘being decent.

Best Decent Quotes and Sayings

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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
– Samuel Johnson

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn’t easy.
– Mary Connealy

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
– Craig Brown

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community.
– Juan Somavia

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
– Ally Carter

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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
– Norman Borlaug

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
– H. L. Mencken

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
– M.M. Musselman

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
– Albert Bandura

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.
– Timothy Egan

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
– Tim Ferriss

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If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can’t be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
– Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

False modesty is the most decent of all deceptions.
– Nicolas Chamfort

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
– Stanley Walker

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they’re not won by them.
– P. D. James

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
– Homer

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A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody’s boss!
– Arno Hintjens

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
– Bill O’Reilly

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
– Richard Eyre

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
– Samuel Butler

Being a humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s still the only place where you can get a decent steak.
– Woody Allen

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
– Dan Simmons

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
– Channing Pollock

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren’t for decent people.
– Jennifer Donnelly