Quotes About Integrity

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

Friendship is more important than truth.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.