Quotes About Integrity

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity!

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

Nothing that's worth saying is proper.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now youve made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish youd left me where you found me.

Eines der traurigsten Dinge im Leben ist, dass ein Mensch viele gute Taten tun muss, um zu beweisen, dass er tüchtig ist, aber nur einen Fehler zu begehen braucht, um zu beweisen, dass er nichts taugt.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no I in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an I in independence, individuality and integrity.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.