“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
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Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
Source: 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
“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
Source: Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color
“A promise must never be broken.”
Source: Works
“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Do the right thing because it is right.”
Source: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source: 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
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts
“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”