Quotes About Integrity

With our limited lifespans, we mere mortals have to figure out what but to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

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It turned out pre-commitment was strikingly successful—resolving clearly to do something, and making a pledge that they'd stick to it, made the men significantly better at holding out.

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question: "How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?" There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Ehre verloren, alles verloren." ("Honor lost, all lost.")

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.