Quotes About Integrity

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

It takes a man to make a devil.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.