Quotes About Integrity

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

I'm really tired of virtue.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.

Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it that while the sleaze and slime of the political underbelly puts us off, we aren't warmed by the relative virtue and scrubbed-clean morality of the Marxists?

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Great necessities call out great virtues.