Quotes About Integrity

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

Be true to thine own self

Be as you wish to seem

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

the great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

An honest man is always a child.

F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action; that is, whether he is acting justly or unjustly, like a good man or a bad one.

Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.