Charles Dickens Quotes

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

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

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Civilization depends on morality.

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

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

My moral compass is strong.

I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.

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.