Quotes About Integrity

If you say you're going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don't revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.