Quotes About Integrity

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.