David Starr Jordan Quotes

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

The just man walks in his integrity

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.