John Webster Quotes

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

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

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

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

The just man walks in his integrity

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

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.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.