Quotes About Integrity

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi?ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.