Walt Disney Quotes

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

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

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

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

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

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

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

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?