Quotes About Integrity

Honourable is right.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another's heart

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Your word is your bond.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.