Quotes About Integrity

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.