Harold B. Lee Quotes

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

What the world needs is people with integrity, people with genuine thoughts and intentions.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.