F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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 is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

I try to do the right thing.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Fear is the mother of morality.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

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

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

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

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.