Quotes About Integrity

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

I don't kno az i want tew bet enny money, and giv odds, on the man, who iz alwus anxious tew pray out loud, every chance he kan git.

The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.

Truth dont require the aid ov elegant and high stepping words, tew express its force, or buty, it iz like water, tastes better out ov a wooden bucket, than it duz out ov a golden goblet.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.