Quotes About Integrity

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Close your legs to married men.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.