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Quotes About Integrity

Be prepared and be honest.
~ John Wooden
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.
~ Frank Norris, McTeague
In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
~ Michael Leunig
The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
~ Joseph Joubert
Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.
~ Hilary Mantel
The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.
~ Lester Maddox
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
~ Aristotle
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
~ Ingmar Bergman
You can't handle the truth!
~ Jack Nicholson
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
~ J. C. Ryle
People are always afraid of the truth.
~ Mickey Rourke
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
~ Ivan Panin
Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
~ Tom Shadyac
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
~ Steve Spurrier
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
~ Kin Hubbard
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
~ Aneurin Bevan
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
~ David Gergen