Quotes About Integrity

Be studious to preserve your reputation; if that be once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value, and at best you do but survive your own funeral.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

you did it, not because you're being punished. He can tell the difference too!

Es cierto... Hay un momento en la vida en que tenemos necesidad de ser canallas, de ensuciarnos hasta adentro, de hacer alguna infamia, yo qué sé... de destrozar para siempre la vida de un hombre... y después de hecho eso podremos volver a caminar tranquilos.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right . . . Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Ich ? : Atheist, allerdings ! : Wie jeder anständige Mensch !