Quotes About Morality

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

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

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

Being good is good business

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

You must do right before you feel good.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.