Quotes About Integrity

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.