Quotes About Integrity

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

The wealthiest man among us is the best

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

Only men of character are trusted.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

No man of God does something against the Lord

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.