E. O. Wilson Quotes

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

My moral compass is strong.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

The just man walks in his integrity

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

My integrity is something I hold dear.

The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

I just want to be a good man.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.