Quotes About Integrity

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Every man has his price.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.