Quotes About Integrity

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains:

To stand up straight — not straightened

Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained.

If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

The best revenge is not to be like that.

It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.

Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change—for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partisan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labor, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.

Jangan pernah menyakiti orang lain dengan perbuatan mau pun kata-kata.

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.

No thefts of free will reported."[—Epictetus.]

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.