Quotes About Integrity

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, oh save me from the candid friend!

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

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

Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

By his deeds we know a man.

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.