Quotes About Integrity

Fighting corruption is not restricted to naming and shaming a few corrupt officials. If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At best, we hate the politician who gets to steal (while we don't!).

Lakshmi is wealth accumulated through honest and fair means. Money can be stolen as well, but Lakshmi brings peace and

Americans may have a hundred flaws, but they are extremely protective of their system. Anyone who tries to break it to come up in life using unfair means is punished severely. Schools

We may want political leaders to not abuse power, but do so ourselves.

it is a lack of values within us, and not just a few bad guys at the top, that has turned India corrupt.

our politicians are not ethical because we aren't ethical.

Beyond a point, people want money to buy respect,' she would tell me when I was a kid. 'Respect, however, can't be bought. You have to earn it.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

With few words one can speak the truth.

Is Error, though unwittingly supported by a host of good men, stronger than Truth? Are Right and Wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? Oh no!

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

All bow to virtue — and then walk away.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

He who hates vice hates mankind.

Virtue's the Paint that can make Wrinkles shine.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The excess of virtue is a vice.