Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou
[I]ntegrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. – Chris Karcher, Relationships of Grace, 2003
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. – Attributed to Abraham Lincoln (unconfirmed)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. – Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766 (commonly misattributed to Samuel
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. – David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine
One does evil enough when one does nothing good. – German Proverb
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. – French Proverb
Your life may be the only Bible some people read. – Author Unknown
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? – William Lloyd Garrison
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. – William Safire
Character is higher than intellect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. – Ted Key
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. – Henry Ford
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. – Mark Twain, “What Is Man?”
If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. – John Lubbock, “The Happiness of Duty,” 1887
It is the final test of a gentleman—his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps, quoted in Golden Book Magazine, July 1935
[See also] You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – Malcolm S. Forbes, c.1972
Let me be thankful first, because I never was robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourthly, because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry (1662–1714)
