Quotes About Integrity

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

The truth will only be told over a career.