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Quotes About Integrity

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
~ Joseph Addison
The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.
~ Joseph Sobran
I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'
~ Josh Hutcherson
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~ Jules Renard
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
~ Jules Renard
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
~ Robert Morrison MacIver
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
~ Robert Payne
Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.
~ Robert Wagner
What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.
~ Rupert Evans
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
~ Saint Augustine
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
In every good man a God doth dwell.
~ Seneca the Younger
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
~ Solomon Schechter
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
~ Solon
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
~ Sophocles
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
~ Thomas Huxley
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
~ Thomas Paine