Moral Rectitude Quotes

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.

Justice may be slow, but it does grind inexorably.

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

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Recompense injury with justice.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

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

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

Sincerity is moral truth.