Quotes About Integrity

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for....

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

Which takes more courage: to rigidly and inflexibly defend a principle, or to demonstrate a sense of perspective and willingness to compromise or walk away from a senseless argument?

I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Money should never change one's values…. Making money is only a report card. It's a way to tell how you're doing.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Health is the requisite after morality

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.