Quotes About Integrity

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Money and virtue must always be combined.