Quotes About Integrity

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

I may speak my mind and come across as opinionated sometimes, but I would never want to harm anyone intentionally.

I know at times I've been very guilty of being too honest at times or too opinionated at times and it costs you a nickel or two.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Men become old, but they never become good.

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops.

I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.