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Quotes About Integrity

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
~ Gertrude Stein
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
~ Price Pritchett
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
~ Janis Joplin
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
~ Thomas Otway
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere
~ Amit Abraham
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
~ David A. Bednar
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
~ James A. Garfield
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
~ William Shakespeare
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
~ Samuel Richardson
If you don't know how, why pretend?
~ Huang E
Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.
~ Owen Feltham
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
~ William McKinley
One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.
~ Michelle Obama
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
~ William Shakespeare
Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."
~ Ted Cruz
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
~ Confucius