Quotes About Integrity

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

None can pray well but he that lives well.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

I would rather be right than President.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

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

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.