Quotes About Integrity

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Abraham Lincoln

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

I am against government by crony.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Every man has his price. For some it's money, for some it's women, for others glory. But the honest man you don't have to buy - he winds up costing you nothing.

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.

Until I die, I will maintain my integrity. (27:2–5) This

My list of the worst offenses against God would begin with hurting another person, cheating another person, shaming another person.

Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Elsewhere in the journal, he transcribes the rules laid down by Benjamin Franklin as a prescription for happiness and success: "Eat not to dullness," "Avoid trifling conversation," "Waste nothing," "Let all things have their place," "Use no hurtful deceit," "Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation," and so on.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.