Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

My moral compass is strong.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

I'll never go against my morals.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Ethics are more important than laws.

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

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

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!