Quotes About Integrity

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

The tree is known by his fruit.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated