Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.  Or needs to. – Mark Twain

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right. – Mario Cuomo

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. – Logan Pearsall Smith

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. – Johann Sigurjonsson

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. – Gloria Steinem

Take care that no one hates you justly. – Publilius Syrus

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. – Abraham Lincoln

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. – Rwandan Proverb

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. – Suzanne Necker

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ‘em all over everything you do. – Elvis Presley

When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. – Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

Righteousness is easy in retrospect. – Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. – Samuel P. Ginder

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain

If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you. – Author Unknown

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. – William Arnot

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine

Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. – Ogden Nash

Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. – Henry Taylor