Quotes About Integrity

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.

several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

God works wonders now & then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man!

though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Tôi không nói x?u ai mà ch? nói nh?ng ?i?u t?t ??p tôi ???c bi?t v? h?.

Franklin's Note.—Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted.

Seek virtue, and of that possess, To providence resign the rest.

grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I form'd written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.

The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.

First, let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and, Secondly, spend one penny less than thy clear gains.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.

Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing

pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.

Truth is brighter than light.