Quotes About Integrity

Yes, but the surest means will be to endeavour to fortify him against temptation, not to remove it out of his way.

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.

however little you may value the opinions of those about you—however little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite, to be thought to practise what you abhor, and to encourage the vices you would discountenance, to find your good intentions frustrated, and your hands crippled by your supposed unworthiness, and to bring disgrace on the principles you profess.

What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham?  Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?

Well!—an honest and industrious farmer is one of the most useful members of society;

It is nonsense to talk about injuring no one but yourself ... Without injuring hundreds, if not thousands, besides, in a greater or less degree, either by the evil you do or the good you leave undone.

When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

Šta stvara vrlinu, gospo?o Grejam? Da li sposobnost i volja da se ?ovek odupre iskušenju, ili nepostojanje iskušenja?

If she gives you her heart,' said I, 'you must take it thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

My object in writing the following pages, was not simply to amuse the Reader, neither was it to gratify my own taste, nor yet to ingratiate myself with the Press and the Public: I wished to tell the truth, for the truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

You are all made of real poop.

Quite honestly, I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to! This reply rather discouraged me. Easy? Does that mean that a lazy, deceitful life is an easy life? Oh no, that can't be true, it mustn't be true, people can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

Ik wil geen aanbidders, maar vrienden, geen bewonderaars voor een vleiend lachje maar voor optreden en karakter. Ik weet heel goed dat dan de kring om me heen veel kleiner zou zijn. Maar wat hindert dat als ik nog maar een paar mensen, oprechte mensen, overhoud?

Der Mann hat einen grossen Geist Und ist so klein von Taten!

În orice reproÈ™ e È™i ceva adev?rat.

I want to be honest; I think it gets you further and also makes you feel better about yourself.

I'll show them that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday. They'll sit up and take notice and keep their big mouths shut when I make them see they ought to attend to their own manners instead of mine.