Quotes About Integrity

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho' awkwardly, for his Word's sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

one life, he had spared others anguish and deterred a descent into anarchy.

Hugh, I remind you that you are still under the oath the last guy swore," Shawn said. "Is that real?" Ralston said.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.