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Quotes About Integrity

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
~ Mark Twain
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
There's no God higher than truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
~ George A. Smith
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
~ Luther Burbank
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.
~ Justin Vernon
As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
~ John Legend
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
~ William S. Burroughs
No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
~ Adyashanti
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Don't go for happiness, go for truth!
~ Charles Tart
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
~ Henry Miller
We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
~ John C. Danforth
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small
~ Albert Einstein
If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.
~ Joseph Curiale
My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.
~ Christopher Titus
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
~ Donald Sutherland
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
~ William Cowper
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~ Sophocles