Quotes About Integrity

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

You cannot stain a black coat

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Approach me again, you — you — you Heep of infamy," gasped Mr. Micawber, " and if your head is human, I'll break it.

The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.

In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza del mondo e non imitavo nessuno dei suoi molti abitanti che agiscono in questo modo. Genio assolutamente naturale, scoprii questa linea di condotta tutto da solo.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

She must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.

Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil, have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong, it was, in some offhand manner, never meant to go right.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two?