Quotes About Integrity

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.

If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.