Jim Mattis Quotes

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

I'll never go against my morals.

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

I don't make my decisions by P.R. I make my decisions based on what I think is right or wrong.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

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.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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

My moral compass is strong.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Don't throw away your conscience.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.