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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. – Albert Einstein, “What I Believe,” Forum and Century, 1930

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. – B.C. Forbes

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905

Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. – Henry Taylor

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! – Allison Gappa Bottke

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. РL̩on Blum

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. – Doug Larson

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. – William Lloyd Garrison

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. – Harriet Woods

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. – Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. – Francis Bacon

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. – Ezra Taft Benson

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. – Gamaliel Bradford

Honor your commitments with integrity. – Les Brown

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. – Charles Caleb Colton

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson