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Quotes About Integrity

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
~ Henry Clay
I'd rather be right than be President
~ Henry Clay
Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.
~ Henry Clay
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
~ Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
~ Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau