Quotes About Morality

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.