Quotes About Integrity

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To live without duties is obscene.

Go put your creed into your deed.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.