Quotes About Integrity

If…if you don't feel anything for me then don't touch me! Don't act like you care!

you." "Bullshit.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated man, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.