Quotes About Integrity

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Every man is the son of his own works.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Honour follows those who flee it.