Quotes About Integrity

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.