Quotes About Integrity

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.