Quotes About Integrity

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, - As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

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