Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got"

Lewis B. Hershey, Soldier

"The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches"

John Witherspoon, Politician

"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent"

Jan Peter Balkenende, Statesman

"In business, a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet"

Lord Chandos, Writer

"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime"

Allan Pinkerton, Businessman

"I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends"

Chuck Colson, Lawyer

"Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside"

Zell Miller, Politician

"For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe"

Deval Patrick, Politician

"I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong"

Kelli White, Athlete

"There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do"

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician

"My soul is not for sale"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion"

William S. Paley, Businessman

"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"I don't have any skeletons in my closet"

Joe Williams, Musician

"I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened"

Ted Demme, Director

"The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing"

David O. Russell, Director

"Play fair, okay?"

Colleen Haskell, Celebrity

"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"Once you get rid of integrity, the rest is a piece of cake"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter"

Ed Markey, Politician

"If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like, what is this?"

Eric San, Musician

"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware"

Diosdado Macapagal, President

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely"

Sophocles, Author

"For I can raise no money by vile means"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"When in doubt, tell the truth"

Mark Twain, Author

"When a person cannot deceive himself, the chances are against his being able to deceive other people"

Mark Twain, Author

"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie"

Mark Twain, Author

"Better a broken promise than none at all"

Mark Twain, Author

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Honesty is the best policy"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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