Quotes About Integrity

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

When thou doest alms, do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.