Quotes About Integrity

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

Think without any dishonesty. 2. Forge yourself in the Way. 3. Touch upon all of the arts. 4. Know the Ways of all occupations. 5. Know the advantages and disadvantages of everything. 6. Develop a discerning eye in all matters. 7. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye. 8. Pay attention to even small things. 9. Do not involve yourself with the impractical.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Men of few words are the best men.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.

Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.

But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gallTo make oppression bitter.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation.

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

The trumpet of his own virtues.