Quotes About Integrity

Bonus vir nm est nisi qu bonus est omnibus. (Publilius Sent.)

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

Doing what is right, isn't always easy, nor was it meant to be. The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.

It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

An ingenious man can hardly stay with a people against their will; and a sincere man can more hardly, for any interest of his own, remain in a place where he is likely to be unprofitable, to hinder the good which they might receive from another man, who hath the advantage of a greater interest in their estimation and affection.

Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

Some desire to know merely for the sake of knowing, and that is shameful curiosity. Some desire to know that they may sell their knowledge, and that too is shameful. Some desire to know for reputation's sake, and that is shameful vanity. But there are some who desire to know that they may edify others, and that is praiseworthy; and there are some who desire to know that they themselves may be edified, and that is wise.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling–blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hindrances of the success of your own labors. It

Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so.

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What