Quotes About Integrity

I wouldn't be lying. I'd just be editing my report for length.

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

The fact is that happily married men don't sleep around.

My son, when thou sayest: All women are liars, it is easy to thee. But he who perceiveth when they are lying, I say unto thee, he is a man of understanding.

He had no individual interest . he was a real hero, our real leader . He was our role model.

Commodore Stephen Decatur. And he said, 'My country, may she always be right—but my country, right or wrong.

Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies or bland deceits.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And

If man will strike, strike through the mask!

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it;

Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's heart, at that instant when he saw the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so blent with its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he hardly knew it for itself.

in coat, heart, body, and brain;

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!

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Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.