Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

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

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

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

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

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

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

You always gotta do the right thing: you never know who's watching.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.