Anita Roddick Quotes

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

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

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

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.

In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

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

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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