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  • What is moral is what you feel good after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.336, Routledge
  • The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

    Hurt   Integrity   Evil  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”
  • 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.

    Integrity   Age   Strive  
  • Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

    "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

    'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41
  • A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

    Sympathy   God   Death  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books
  • Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

    Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”
  • A little integrity is better than any career.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press
  • The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

    1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.
  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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

  • About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

    "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.
  • In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  • Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

    Integrity   Destiny   Men  
    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  • The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

    "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.
  • Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

    Mother   Integrity   May  
    Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255
  • 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.

    Trust   Wise   Country  
    "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.
  • It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press
  • The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  • Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.

  • What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

    Song   Men   Keys  
    "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.
  • Integrity needs no rules.

  • Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  • A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  • Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

    Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press
  • People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.

    Hurt   Children   Honesty  
    "The Roots of Violence" by Alice Miller, www.alice-miller.com. 2015.
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