Albert Einstein Quotes

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

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

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

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.