Quotes About Integrity

Never smoke another man's pipe.

Though surrounded by sinfulness and terror, we must not become so embittered that we take Satan's methods as our own.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that's what counts, not what other people might think of me.

Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong

Dad just smiled wryly. "You'll learn, Frank, that when you're up there're hundreds of people who'll claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one of them will buy you a cup of coffee. If I had it to do over again, I'd select my friends more carefully. I do have a couple of good friends. They're not wealthy, but one of them got me my job in the post office.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

what a man has but what a man is that's important.

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?

I've written already, the trip could only be made feasible by a lie and of lying I'm afraid, not like a man of honour, but like a pupil.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.