Charles Dickens Quotes

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

The just man walks in his integrity

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

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.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Virtue is her own reward.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.