Nelson Mandela Quotes

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.