Quotes About Integrity

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence, there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.—Confucius

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

We can all recall acquaintances of whose integrity of purpose we can have no doubt, but who cause much confusion as they proceed to the accomplishment of that purpose, who indeed are often insensible to their own mistakes and harsh in their judgments of other people because they are so confident of their own inner integrity.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

faultless in spite of all her faults...

Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.