Quotes About Integrity

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

If any good results to a man from believing a lie, it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

False in one thing, false in everything

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.

The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.