Quotes About Integrity

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.