Quotes About Integrity

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.

Next morning I crept up to my room, the bitter flavour of disgust and shame in my mouth. Now that the warmth of her body no longer troubled my senses I felt the glaring reality, the repulsive nature of my betrayal. I knew at once that I would never again be able to look him in the face, never again take his hand--I had robbed myself, not him, of what meant most to me.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

I lied, therefore I thought.

See, when something's the right thing to do, you don't do it for a reward.

All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

the love of truth is an act of the spirit.

Truth is the courage to fathom the facts in order to see how they relate to the Word.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

one should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.