Quotes About Integrity

When defects of character are your character, you become a what.

It offends my conscience to bear witness against him.

I don't write the way I speak. I'm afraid you would think I didn't know any better. I don't write the way I do for the pulpit, either, insofar as I can help it. That would be ridiculous, in the circumstances. I do try to write the way I think. But of course that all changes as soon as I put it into words. And the more it does seem to be my thinking, the more pulpitish it sounds, which I guess is inevitable. I will resist that inflection, nevertheless.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Any man can turn traitor.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.

I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Everyone is responsible for everything he does

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man

Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Santino, never let anyone outside the Family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

He had asked Hagen one final question. Does this man have real balls? Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.