Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The just man walks in his integrity

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

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

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

I try to do things the right way.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.