Quotes About Integrity

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself." —Sir Henry Wotton

Knavery and flattery are blood relations." —Abraham Lincoln

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout.

Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.

Éste es uno de los principales inconvenientes de la extrema belleza en las chicas: sólo los ligones experimentados, cínicos y sin escrúpulos se sienten a su altura; así que los seres más viles son los que suelen conseguir el tesoro de su virginidad, lo cual supone para ella el primer grado de una irremediable derrota

When we don't ask for much, we also send a message that we're not really serious.

It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.