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Quotes About Integrity

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
~ Thomas Jefferson
How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again
~ Tupac Shakur
It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.
~ W. C. Fields
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
~ William Faulkner
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
~ William Mathews
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
~ William Shakespeare
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
~ William Shakespeare
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
~ William Shakespeare
Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
~ William Shakespeare
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.
~ Harold Bell Wright
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
~ Henrik Ibsen
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
~ Herman Melville
I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.
~ Howard Gossage
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
~ Isaac Barrow
A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
~ J-Ax