Quotes About Integrity

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him. I nodded. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father? He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it.

Loyalty, usually an admirable trait, is not always a good thing—not when it is blind and when the object of that loyalty is undeserving.

Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.