Quotes About Integrity

when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

The love of those who have not learned to stand solitude, or who "invite a witness when [they] wish to speak well of" themselves is not a virtue but simply a weakness; nor do they profit their neighbors.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

My father once told me that a great man walks the back roads. He does what's right every day and no one knows it but those lucky enough to be loved by him.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

He might not be a good man but he is a good son.

No. What I wonder is why would you care?" "I'm a cop, LT. It's my job to protect the welfare of even garbage like you.

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.

O, the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.

I want to speak with you," she said, "and I have placed honest Thornie betwixt Rashleigh and you on purpose. He will be like— Feather-bed 'twixt castle wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball, while I, your earliest acquaintance in this intellectual family, ask of you how you like us all?

Fear to do base unworthy things is valour;      If they be done to us, to suffer them      Is valour too.

If thou readest the Scripture, said the Jewess, and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy, thy crime is like that of him who extracts poison from the most healthful and necessary herbs.

cared for no rogues but their own

to be innocent of ill is no security ;

I will never sell my liberty for gold.

Traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause

Ye never saw dull weather clear without a shower; and if the world is turned upside down, why, honest men have the better chance to cut bread out of it.

the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband's affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.

The honest heart that's free frae a' Intended fraud or guile, However Fortune kick the ba', Has aye some cause to smile. BURNS.