Quotes About Integrity

We are turn out to be disliked by many, if we tell the truth.

We don't change the plan of the building to fix a mistake done by a builder.

What does not show respect to the inner-man, must not be done.

Lie faces God and shrikns from men

It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

Play up! play up! and play the game!

How happy is he born and taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his utmost skill!

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. ?Tis better that a man?s own works than another man?s words should praise him.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

I dare, without usurpation, assume the honorable style of a Christian.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.