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Quotes About Morality

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.
~ Don Peppers
Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.
~ Confucius
If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
~ Ken Ham
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
~ Harvey S. Firestone
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
~ Warren G. Bennis
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Laozi
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
~ John C. Maxwell
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
~ Karl G. Maeser
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
~ Plutarch
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
~ Theodore Parker
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
~ Samuel Johnson
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!
~ Robert Burns
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne
How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
~ Price Pritchett
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
~ Daniel Webster
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
~ Edward Young
What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
~ Thomas Pynchon
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
~ Henry James
Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.
~ Greg Behrendt
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
~ Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
~ Cornel West