Quotes About Integrity

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.

[F*@%] all the people who say, "God bless," and then don't bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven't the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not honor such a request.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.

I may be a liar, but at least I'm a gentleman.

Beware of the half-truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

Yes, it is always the best policy to speak the truth — unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips.

It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven.

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

but do not come down to the working class and serve as false leaders. You cannot honestly be in the two camps at once. The working class has done without you. Believe me, the working class will continue to do without you. And, furthermore, the working class can do better without you than with you.