Quotes About Integrity

When one asks for cream one should receive either cream or the information that the establishment in question favors instead a combination of vegetable oil and cancer-causing initials.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple...

What flatterers say, try to make true.

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

Justice is the foundation of courage...

Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Occasionally you hear a man boasting how good his credit is, but, as a matter of fact, no man's credit is as good as his money.

When you base your life on principle, 99% of your decisions are already made.

A friend may smile and bid you hail, Yet wish you with the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

The wise man keeps on good terms with his wife, his conscience, and his stomach.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Don't make excuses — make good!

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Fire and pride cannot be hid.

What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.