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Quotes About Integrity

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Hang those that talk of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
~ Joseph Addison
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
~ Gayle Brandeis
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
~ B. C. Forbes
Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
~ Susana Martinez
I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.
~ Caroline Myss
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
~ Arthur Koestler
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
~ Ron Suskind
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.
~ William Shakespeare
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.
~ Guy Finley
I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
~ Henry Hopper
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Lies come from fear, from cowardice.
~ Jenny Sanford
Fear could never make a virtue.
~ Voltaire
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
~ Alice Walker
When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
~ Salman Rushdie
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
~ Charles Peguy