Quotes About Integrity

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.