Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"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

Caryl Chessman

"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

"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

Barbara Olson

"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

"The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth"

David Ginola, Athlete

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

Diosdado Macapagal, President

"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent"

Bill Scott, Actor

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

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"For I can raise no money by vile means"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"When in doubt, tell the truth"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Better a broken promise than none at all"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"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

Abraham Lincoln

"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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"As fire, when thrown into water, is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation, when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes, and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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