Roger Babson Quotes

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

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

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

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.

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

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

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

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

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