Quotes About Integrity

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.