Quotes About Integrity

There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.

The father of his country.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

The work praises the man.

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.