Quotes About Integrity

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.