Quotes About Integrity

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

The united voice of millions cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

I… chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Both wit and understanding are trifles, without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without an heart?

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Without a moral center -- there can be no string family. And without family, we one and all suffer.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.