Quotes About Integrity

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

College guys are different. They're looking for quality.

Yes, we need to be active Christians, walking through doors that are open to us. But sometimes we break the doors down, say they were already open, and even use God's name to defend ourselves, defiling his character with misinterpretations of His word. We do these things to meet her own needs instead of trusting Him.

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.

Honest friends is kinda nice, but it's hard to beat a big-ass lie and a six-pack of brewskies.

Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say

You may lie.

If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.

Any community's arm of force--military, police, security--needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.