Quotes About Integrity

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

The minority is always right.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Good men do the most harm.

Noli nothis permittere te terere

Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win

I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than President.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.