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Quotes About Integrity

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
~ Rafael Palmeiro
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
~ David Hare
The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.
~ Robinson Jeffers
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.
~ Ani DiFranco
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.
~ Mike Rinder
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
~ Barack Obama
We are free to yield to truth.
~ Horace
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.
~ Jewel
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
~ Greg Egan
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.
~ Pierre Bayle
And simple truth miscalled simplicity
~ William Shakespeare
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
~ Plato
Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
~ Elton John
Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
~ Mariel Hemingway
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
~ Dante Alighieri
I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.
~ Craig Benzine
Victory cannot tolerate truth.
~ Nachman of Breslov
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
~ Veronica Roth
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
~ Confucius