Quotes About Morality

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

The best of all lost arts is honesty

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.