Quotes About Integrity

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit . . . a reputation, character.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.

You're not in this life for things to go well. You're in this life to be your deepest heart in all that goes well and in all that doesn't.

Let what is most delicate in your heart live boldly.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

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You should live by, what you claim to believe in. And if you choose to deviate, you should be ashamed of either defying your own beliefs, or believing those beliefs.

If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.

And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

Make sure he ain't a dinge, boys.Make sure he ain't a guinea or a kike,how can you tell a guy's a hunredpercent when all you've got's a gunnysack full of bones, bronze buttons stamped with the screaming eagle and a pair of roll puttees?