Robert E. Lee Quotes

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

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

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

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

My integrity is something I hold dear.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Integrity is the core of our character.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.