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Quotes About Integrity

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.
~ Edwin Markham
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.
~ Ellen Buckingham Mathews
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
~ Ellen Goodman
Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
~ Esther Forbes
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
~ Euripides
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
~ Euripides
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
~ Euripides
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
~ Everett Dirksen
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
All men of honor are alone.
~ F. Paul Wilson
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.
~ Ferdinand Lundberg
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
~ Francis Bacon
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
~ Francis Bacon
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
~ Francis Bacon
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
~ Francois Rabelais