L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

Integrity is the core of our character.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

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

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.