Quotes About Integrity

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

Where there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

And I flat out refuse to have one of those lives that I wouldn't even want to read about.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

I have heard that he is proud, but also honourable and, most importantly of all, amenable to reason

I have spent my life working for the greater good and the protection of the innocent and--yes!--the wrongly accused. That group includes you, monsieur. Also, today, it includes Hercule Poirot. I too am wrongly accused.

When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done.

There is a difference, Peter, between an unforgivable act and a person of unforgivable character.

When you're young, you don't seriously wonder whether your friends might be terrible people. You're naive and optimistic; you assume anyone occupying the structural position of best friend must be a good person deep down.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for himself... then all is lost. We've become the monsters they say we are.

I'm not going to lie to you and convince you that I'm someone good and shiny like your guy that's going to be a doctor.

Character is what you do when no one's looking.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.