Quotes About Integrity

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him.

The body never lies.

By evil report and good report.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.