Quotes About Integrity

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

If ever I said, in grief or pride,I tired of honest things, I lied.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built of What is Known Will chill the marrow in the bone.

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

La idea de ganarse la confianza ajena sin dar a cambio la suya le parecía el colmo de la sabiduría.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.