Quotes About Integrity

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

Say things to the world that are true.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Principle is a passion for truth.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.