Quotes About Integrity

Practicing law is not about winning. It's about justice. Simple, naked justice. It's about finding the truth. - Judge Sarah L. Hart

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer..

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?

If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out. (Dedication for a Plot of Ground)

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

the genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy"—but

If a party stands for nothing but reelection it indeed stands for nothing.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

I will never lie again.