Moral Ethics Quotes - Page 3

• He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

  Samuel Adams

  Trust, Wise, Country

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

  William Penn

  Independent, Tyrants, Gods Will

  Letter to Peter the Great, the Czar of Russia, on July 02, 1698. "The Life of William Penn". Book by Samuel M. Janney, p. 407, 1852.

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• There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Marian Anderson

  Broken Heart, Integrity, Moving

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Careers, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Integrity, Age, Strive

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• I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Men, Quality

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Integrity needs no rules.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Needs, Ethics

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• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Integrity, Understanding, Ethics

  Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

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• A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Integrity, Lines, Ethics

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.140, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

  Frank Perdue

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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  Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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