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Integrity needs no rules.
Sep 10, 2025
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!
Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.
Have the courage to face the truth
Do the right thing because it is right.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.