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Quotes About Integrity

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.
~ Henry Miller
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
~ Herman Melville
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
~ Horace
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
~ Izaak Walton
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
~ James F. Cooper
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
~ James Madison
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
~ Jean Paul
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
~ Jesse H. Jones
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
~ John Banville
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
~ John Dickey
Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
~ John F. Kennedy
He who is less than just is less than man.
~ John Howard Griffin
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
~ John Peter Altgeld
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
~ John Vanbrugh
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
~ Joseph Conrad
We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
~ Judith Martin
It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
~ Jupiter Hammon
Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.
~ Ken Follett
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
~ Laozi