Quotes About Integrity

His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men.

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

Don't play games with my heart I will let you go before you start

I can almost see lies coming through your teeth In every word you speak you make it clear to me That you're playing wrong and your game ain't strong I've been in this too long, so just be moving on

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.

Watch out for men who are on speaking terms with the Almighty.

The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means -- one does not justify the other.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.

In a doctrine so simple, consistency is no merit.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

I may stand alone, But would not change my free thoughts for a throne.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over