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Quotes About Integrity

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
~ Gene Fowler
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
~ George Canning
Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
~ George Herbert
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?
~ George McGovern
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
~ George R. R. Martin
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
~ Gillian Flynn
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
~ H. L. Mencken
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
~ Lord Acton
Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
~ Lord Edward Cecil
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
~ Mario Puzo
The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
~ Marjorie Holmes
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
~ Mark Twain
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.
~ Matthew Henry
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
~ Maxim Gorky
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
~ Nachman of Breslov
If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.
~ Paul Gascoigne
You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.
~ Peter Burke
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
~ Plautus