Quotes About Integrity

Leadership is often nothing more than doing the right thing and inspiring others to the same.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

And let me be rather but honest with no-wit, Than a noisy nonsensical half-witted poet.

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

I beg your pardon, my lord; promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Promise little and do much.

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

In executing the duties of my present important station I can promise nothing but purity of intentions — and in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence; if these, under the guidance of a superintending Providence, shall continue to me the approbation and affection of my fellow-citizens of the Union, it will be the highest gratification and the most ample reward that my mind can form any conception of in this life.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

I never said all that [$#*t].