Quotes About Integrity

Children and fools always speak the truth.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

You can't pray a lie Huck Finn

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

it don't make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

You can't pray a lie.

I did not steal your paltry goods!

There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow.

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud." "I have a better idea," suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?