Samuel Adams Quotes

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

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.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Virtue is not always amiable.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.