Quotes About Integrity

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.