Quotes About Integrity

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Be good and you will be lonely.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

You can't pray a lie.

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.