Quotes About Integrity

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

This kind of thing is happening here in Al-Ahram all the time. It's very difficult to keep your hands clean. There are journalists in this building who have done just that. I know it for a fact. They get apartments. Not exactly as gifts, of course. But take that apartment for half a million: The journalist will 'buy' it for one hundred thousand, then sell it for the market price and make a huge profit.

I am a leader, therefore I lead; I am an executive, therefore I execute; I am a human being, therefore I care.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Buzzards don't make good friends. They always have an interior motive.

One riot, one cowdog.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

My idea of being a nice dog stops short of getting murdered for it.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

There's nothing wrong with making a fake that looks like a Whiteley, feels like a Whiteley, but in fact isn't a Whiteley."

Humans are supposed to be better than that! I'm embarrassed for my whole damned species.

The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously by flattering the king. Said the flatterer, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." The philosopher replied, "If you would learn to live on lentils, you would not have to give up your independence in order to be docile and acquiescent to the king.

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

Inhabited by an endless stream of mountebanks, bigots, thieves, embezzlers, and bribe-takers, it would be challenging to violate the dignity of Mexico's legislatures.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.