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Quotes About Integrity

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
~ William Shakespeare
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
~ Teresa of Avila
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
~ John Harington
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
~ Euripides
There's no mystery to integrity. There's no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.
~ John de Ruiter
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
~ Charles Comiskey
Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.
~ Steve Aylett
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~ Martin Sheen
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
~ Azar Nafisi
Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.
~ Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
~ Don DeLillo
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
~ John H. McWhorter
What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.
~ William Shakespeare
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
~ Kevin Bacon
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.
~ Gabrielle Dennis
What is more arrogant than honesty?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
~ Paloma Faith
I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.
~ Michael Hyatt
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.
~ Moses Aaron Richardson
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.
~ Samuel R. Delany
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers