Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

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.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Integrity is never painless.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

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

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

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Stand up for what you know is right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

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