Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

... a man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Traditional values are big in my life.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

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.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.

In football, and in life, I have always tried to be completely honest and true to myself and my family at all times, and that is what I will continue to do.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

I can look at myself in the mirror every night knowing I've never ever pretended to be someone I know I'm not for the sake of showbiz industry. I believe that it's important to live by your truth in order to be able to sleep peacefully when you rest your head at night. I've gone off and taken breaks, not necessarily by choice, but life has a way of giving you breaks, even when you don't want them, especially in this industry. So, I've had a chance to raise my children and to be a mom, and to come back to do more in film and television. I really cannot complain.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.