Quotes About Integrity

You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Honest people don't keep their actions hidden…

The two new friends established themselves in the house during his absence; where I heard Hareton sternly check his cousin, on her offering a revelation of her father-in-law's conduct to his father. He said he wouldn't suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement: if he were the devil, it didn't signify; he would stand by him; and he'd rather she would abuse himself, as she used to, than begin on Mr. Heathcliff.

honest people don't hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)

don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

Real friendship requires fidelity, rather like a happy marriage.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it

My Country is Truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

You can love someone you mistrust.

I cheated with Rachel, but I'll never cheat on Rachel.

Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust.

You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.

But I also knew in my heart that I wouldn't cover for my son if he committed a terrible crime. Any crime. I wouldn't lie for him. I wouldn't obstruct justice for him. I would stand by him, but I would also want him to confess and truly repent and bear responsibility for his actions. I would want him to earn and deserve his forgiveness.

She knows in her heart that it doesn't work like this. That misfortune doesn't give you the right to disregard others, ignore the rules, tell lies and half-truths.

that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.

That nothing can be real when marred with so many lies.

We have no relationship without honesty. - by Claude

What I can't stand are the judgmental hypocrites—people who talk a big Christian game yet don't even make a cursory attempt to follow the Golden Rule, let alone some of those pesky commandments

hesitated, thinking of all the ways I could change the subject, then made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was finished with small talk and surface conversation and diversions and lies of any kind, no matter how small. At least for right now, as I sat at my parents' dining room table, with a kind man who had once loved me, and who still prayed to God before supper.