Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
Roy T. Bennett
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
Saint Augustine
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.
Danish proverbs
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
Publilius Syrus
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Chinese proverbs
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Zig Ziglar
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
Russian proverbs
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt