Quotes About Integrity

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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 it on your own terms.

We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

English proverb

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'