Quotes About Integrity

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Good men must be affectionate men.

My heart and my hand shall never be separated.

I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

But, learn that although all men are for sale, they don't sell themselves to all buyers.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

To know and to act are one and the same.

If you know people who seem to be very wise and yet put others down, reject friends, and make people feel bad about themselves — no matter how high their words or what they teach — you can rest assured they do not love themselves.

If I wanted more commercial success, I guess I wish I would've been willing to play the game a little bit more and be a little bit more malleable in that way ... but I wasn't. I'm still not, really. It's just not who I am.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

The best doctors in the world are healers and not dealers!

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

A double-minded man is unsure in all his ways.

You do not tell a woman you love her and then shimmy off up into the air.

I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Letting someone believe something that is not true produces the same result as saying something false: It is the passive version of lying.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

He was meant for mistresses. Emily was a woman meant for one man, one love, forever.

Give what you believe in and not what you have.