Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.

I'm just a human being who would not accept being wronged.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

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

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

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

We have to stand for the truth.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?