Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Practice yourself what you preach.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

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

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Leaders should not ask others to do what they will not do themselves.