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Quotes About Integrity

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.
~ Marcus Eremita
We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
~ Margaret Atwood
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
~ Mark E. Smith
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
~ Mark Twain
In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.
~ Mark Twain
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
~ Mark Twain
Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.
~ Martha Beck
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
~ Martin Firrell
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
~ Marya Mannes
But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
~ Matthew Arnold