Quotes About Integrity

Things half done and hints half given are always bad; all the evil in the world comes from half-measures.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....

The successful salesperson makes a good leader because he or she inspires trust.

Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue.

You will never regret speaking up and being wrong. But you will if you don't and you're dead right.

I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

What kind of man eats your fish when you won't sleep with him?

What's your plan to stay out of my bed?

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.