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Quotes About Integrity

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
~ Carl Bernstein
If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like
~ Anonymous
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
~ Novalis
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
~ Anne Frank
You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.
~ Hope Solo
Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.
~ Beth Moore
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.
~ Michael Jackson
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
~ Brad Blanton
It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
~ Randi Rhodes
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Silence is the mother of truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
The truth will make you odd.
~ Judy Blume
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~ Frank Herbert
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
~ Gay Hendricks
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.
~ Jerry Hall
Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
~ Vaclav Havel