Quotes About Character

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

Integrity to yourself, honesty to others..trust yourself to be trusted ...simple..(Ejump, 2017)

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.