Quotes about Morality

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Better, though difficult, the right way to go. Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.  But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well.  For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. 

there is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.

For if we freely let our lusts reign, it is sin. While it seems bad to hold back such feeling based on our opinions, yet not to do so is worse. When a person stumbles accidentally it is bad enough, but allowing your lusts to go unbridled leads into the snare.

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER

It is our business to do what's right; it's God's business to make sure everything turns out right.

Thomas Macauley said, "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would never be found out." Life is like a vise; at times it will squeeze us. At those moments of pressure, whatever is inside will be found out. We cannot give what we do not have. Image promises much but produces little. Integrity never disappoints.

V. Gilbert Beers says, "A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged." Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do. Our

Good character, with honesty and integrity at its core, is essential to success in any area of life. Without it, a person is building on shifting sand.

Developing and maintaining integrity require constant attention. John Weston, chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., says, "I`ve always tried to live with the following simple rule: Don`t do what you wouldn`t feel comfortable reading about in the newspapers the next day." That`s a good standard all of us should keep.

There's no such thing as business ethics—there's only ethics.