Quotes About Integrity

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.