Quotes About Integrity

What flatterers say, try to make true.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Gamaliel Bradford that "sacred as both are, the law of love is higher than the law of truth. For this there is a perfectly simple and unassailable reason, that truth at its best is deceiving, but love is never. We toil and tire ourselves and sacrifice our lives for the dim goddess Truth. Then she eludes us, slips away from us, mocks at us. But love grows firmer and surer and more prevailing as the years pass by.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,

Dico che il mondo è una lega di birbanti contro gli uomini dabbene, di vili contro i generosi.

Power – any form of power – is acceptable only if it's transparent and clean, if it's exercised in a way that is equal for everybody.

Each of us, over the years, creates a character for ourselves. One we identify with, which corresponds to a positive idea of ourselves, which encapsulates the qualities we like to think we have. Your character, the one you've created for yourself, the one you identify with, has, among its various characteristics, one that could be described like this: He's a criminal lawyer, therefore he defends criminals, but not those who've committed heinous and disgusting crimes.

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

La verità è difficile da sopportare ed è per pochi

My grandfather often quoted it, and said that the rule of moral balance is the opposite of the behaviour described in that sentence. It means not lying to ourselves about the significance of, and the reasons for, what we do and what we don't do. It means not looking for justifications, not manipulating the account we make of ourselves to anyone, including ourselves.

There is a hint of hypocrisy about a cricketer who affects to let his bat do the talking, then in the next breath has his talk do the baiting.

It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.

Never let the truth become your enemy.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy because his body which you can always conquer gives you so little purchase over his soul.