Quotes About Integrity

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

You can't trust anybody with power.

There is explosive power in virtue.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.