Quotes about Integrity

By the way, a question is sometimes raised, whether the moral choice or the actions have most to do with Virtue, since it consists in both: it is plain that the perfection of virtuous action requires both: but for the actions many things are required, and the greater and more numerous they are the more.

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

We cannot be prudent without being good.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way - is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it, hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

It's every man's business to see justice done.