Quotes About Morality

Honesty defines self respect.

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

Honesty is the best insurance policy.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Honor is better than honors.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.