R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

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

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

I have long observed one Rule .... It is simply this, to be concern'd in no Affairs that I should blush to have made publick, and to do nothing but what spies may see ...

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

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

The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing