Quotes About Integrity

Money is an amplifier. It makes good people better and bad people worse by creating opportunities they wouldn't have had without it.

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

one cannot even kill a cat, let alone a person, with impunity, nor can one with impunity expel a person, let alone drive away a cat, without consequences.

Conèixer la pròpia deshonra i sostenir la pròpia glòria; un ésser així és un exemple en el món.

Fitness is like marriage. You can't cheat on it and expect it to work.

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

And I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues And a preacher on the old time gospel hour Stealing money from the sick and the old Well the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister!

we'd rather not play the role of best friends. We'd rather be best friends, and that meant being truthful. Friendship is not a sentimental business.

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.