Quotes About Integrity

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, Our Country, right or wrong, and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.