Quotes About Integrity

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

Don't attitudenize.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

I am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the wind.

A good honest and painful sermon.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.