Quotes About Integrity

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Man believes and lives.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.