Quotes About Integrity

We are betrayed by what is false within.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.