Quotes About Integrity

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Character is that which can do without success.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding

The life of truth is cold.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying