Quotes About Integrity

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

He said likewiseThat a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

Whenever a time comes that the justice overwhelms and overcomes cruelty, it is prohibited to form negative conjectures and opinions about anyone, except when one knows it about him. But whenever a time comes that cruelty and oppression overwhelms the (quantum of) justice, then one must not have good opinions about the beneficence of a person, till such time he knows it(for sure).

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

A trustworthy person does not betray you, but you consider the betrayer to be trustworthy.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.

When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of him, is a great injustice to him. On the contrary in a corrupt society to form good opinion of anyone of them and to trust him is to harm yourself.

A Divine rule can be established only by a man, who, where justice and equity are required, neither feels deficient nor weak and who is not greedy and avaricious.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal.

The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.