Quotes About Integrity

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Your luck is how you treat people.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

No sensible person ever made an apology.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Keep your promises to yourself.

No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.