Quotes About Morality

Billy Graham said, "Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. We must constantly strive to keep our integrity intact.

The Man Who Could Do No Wrong by Dr. Charles Blair

We don't get to pick our talents or IQ. But we do choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices—to cop out or dig out of a hard situation, to bend the truth or stand under the weight of it, to take the easy money or pay the price.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

To develop your integrity, make a commitment to yourself to be scrupulously honest. Don't shave the truth, don't tell white lies, and don't fudge numbers. Be truthful even when it hurts. To develop authenticity, be yourself with everyone. Don't play politics, role play, or pretend to be anything you're not. To strengthen your discipline, do the right things every day regardless of how you feel.

DETERMINE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS.

La honestidad no es algo que haces; la honestidad es quién eres».

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs.

Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

Of course, I can lie to you. But I believe that morality built on the truth is the most venerable. I want us to separate not because you are a bad person but because we just look at different directions and to go on makes no sense. I'm very sorry.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.

Forgive yourself for your mistakes. No one is ever all good or all bad. Doing something you regret doesn't make you a hateful person, just as doing something good doesn't make you a saint.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

They (the German companies) want to buy moral forgiveness but you don't buy moral forgiveness at bargain-basement prices.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Telling the truth to make someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone smile.