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Quotes About Integrity

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
~ William S. Burroughs
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.
~ Abdul Kalam
I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
~ R. D. Laing
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rogers
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
~ James Russell Lowell
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
~ David Mamet
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.
~ Billy Graham
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
~ William Shakespeare
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Where there is no truth there is no grace.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.
~ David A. Bednar
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Our own life has to be our message.
~ Nhat Hanh
Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?
~ Charles Grodin
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.
~ Mario Bunge
They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
~ Ani DiFranco
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
~ Agatha Christie
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
~ James Sharp
The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.
~ Garrison Wynn