Laura Schlessinger Quotes

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

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

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

... a man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

I don't want to regret doing something that I don't believe in.

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.