Laura Schlessinger Quotes

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

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

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

Integrity is never painless.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

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.