Quotes About Integrity

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?