Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

I want to do things right. I really, really do.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Not men but measures"—a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

You never say what you're not going to do.

There is no debt more lawful than the word of a just man nor anything which binds our actions more than a promise.

I know but one code of morality for man whether acting singly or collectively. He who says I will be a rogue when I act in company with a hundred others, but an honest man when I act alone, will be believed in the former assertion, but not in the latter.

People should be judged by the principles they espouse and the principles they betray.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.