Quotes About Integrity

No lie ever reaches old age.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

No falsehood lingers on into old age.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

Watch what you say, and whaterver you say, practice it

Bada a quel che dici, e qalunque cosa tu dica, mettila in pratica.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Because if you're out there not out of a love for justice, but rather, out of hate for your enemy, in no short time you will become the evil you thought you were fighting. Before you know it, the good guys will be the ones protesting you.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.