Quotes About Integrity

Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

I will give you the best I have.

After reviewing how denominational strife had led to war and while admitting the guilt of many Confederates, a Baptist preacher concluded that "faith once delivered to the Saints has been maintained in its integrity and purity throughout the States of the South.

Give me th'avowed, th'erect, the manly foe,Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send,Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend!

I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

There should be no available ugly frames for beautiful souls to be hurried into by carelessness or mistake, and no ugly souls should be suffered to creep, like hermit-crabs, into beautiful shells never intended for them. The outward and visible form should mark the inward and spiritual grace;

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

In the lives of nations the really worthwhile things cannot and will not be hidden.