Quotes About Integrity

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.