Quotes About Integrity

promise you, Jules. Would I let you down?

would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was

the great beauties of the world were the women who displayed not only beauty but character:

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying (63)

Si un être était capable de mentir aux autres et de les rouler comme il peut se mentir à soi-même, il ferait une sensationnelle carrière d'escroc.

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying.

You can't lie to your soul.

Power breeds responsibilities […] To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself

High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons

Lead how you like to be led.

Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good, or a force for destruction.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)

Honour, not honours.