Quotes About Integrity

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.

I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.

I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'

The Profile in Courage Award recognizes elected officials who choose to do what is right, not what is easy, so that we might learn from their example. Each time we give the award, we bear witness to the past for the sake of the future.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Married men don't get their own apartments 'to escape' their lives with their wives.

Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?

The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I don't wanna marginalize myself. I don't wanna be the overly woke rapper, and I don't wanna be the turned-up rapper.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.