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Quotes About Integrity

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
~ Confucius
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
~ Confucius
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
~ Confucius
Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
~ Diana Gabaldon
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
~ Earl Nightingale
It is difficulties that show what men are.
~ Epictetus
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.
~ Felix Riesenberg
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
~ George Washington
A man kept his character even when he was insane.
~ Graham Greene
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
~ Harry Belafonte
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
~ Henry Fielding
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
~ Horace
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
~ Horace
I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.
~ Jamie Carragher
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.
~ John J. McCloy
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
~ John Locke
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
~ John Wesley
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.
~ Karl Kraus
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
~ Mahatma Gandhi