Quotes About Integrity

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.