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Quotes About Integrity

A man in words and not in deeds, Is like a Garden full of weeds.
~ James Howell's Proverbs, 1660
A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow...
~ Nursery Rhyme
They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
~ William Shakespeare
Fire tests metal, wine tests men.
~ Japanese Proverb
Virgos cannot tolerate lying, cheating, fakeness, or ignorance.
~ Author Unknown
Ruth is Truth
~ Internet meme
It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.
~ Kanuri proverb
Your life, it lies before you Like a path of driven snow. Be careful how you tread it For every step will show.
~ Author unknown, c. 1940s
This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
~ Winston Churchill, 1941
...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ William Bruce Cameron
When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.
~ Michael D. Harris
Never trust anyone whose television is larger than their bookshelf.
~ Author Unknown
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.
~ Orison Swett Marden
To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.
~ Robert Burns, 1789
If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.
~ Joseph Schenck
Be your whole self with your whole soul.
~ Terri Guillemets
Scorpio motto: Do it with passion or not at all.
~ Internet meme
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
~ M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down.
~ Wilson Mizner
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you…it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.
~ Krystal
It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.
~ Hans F. Hansen
My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?
~ Bradley Wiggins