Charlotte Bronte 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.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

I'll never go against my morals.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

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

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

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.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

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

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.