Quotes About Integrity

"The best of men are just men at best.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.