Quotes About Integrity

When you run into a story of more than three against one and one winning, then you have heard a lie.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

Such as have made a considerable improvement of their gifts and graces, have hearts as large as their heads; whereas most men's heads have outgrown their hearts.

Surely it is more honourable to do great things, than to speak or read great things!...When a Christian has one eye upon his book, the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads.

You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.

The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?

Nature admits no lie.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Be not the slave of Words.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...