Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

My conscience is clear.

I have a very clear conscience.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.