Quotes About Integrity

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.

Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.

Never knowingly undersold.

You can't trust even thieves these days.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I frequently recall his sage advice to me at our first meeting: "Don't change who you are now that you've 'arrived.

I suppose beat reporters who cover people like Babbitt and Gephardt are reluctant to offend because they may need the powerful people's cooperation tomorrow. I didn't worry about cooperation tomorrow, so I kept offending people today.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.

we do not call anything justice which is not a virtue

In the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions.

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.