Max Lucado Quotes

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

The just man walks in his integrity

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

All the devils respect virtue.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.