Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Peter Drucker, management expert

 

The right is more precious than peace.

President Woodrow Wilson

 

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, clergyman

 

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

"Hamlet," Act 1 Scene 7

 

Subtlety may deceive you; but integrity never will.

Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England

 

 

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Ezra Taft Benson, former U.S. secretary of agriculture, Mormon leader

 

A man can do only what a man can do. but if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, musician

 

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans

 

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle, philosopher

 

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, aviator, writer

 

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. To silence envious tongues: be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's.

William Shakespeare, playwright

 

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

Proverbs 11:10

 

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

Proverbs 4:23

 

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Proverbs 13:9

 

The highway of the upright avoids evil: he who guards his way guards his soul.

Proverbs 16:17

 

An evil man is snared by his own sin, but a righteous one can sing and be glad.

Proverbs 29:6

 

The way of the Lord is a refuge for the righteous, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.

Proverbs 10:29

 

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character.

Stephen R. Covey, author

 

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 29:2

 

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Gamaliel Bradford, biographeer