Quotes About Integrity

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Sincerity is the LUXURY allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Civilization depends on morality.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

States!... Go put your creed into your deed.