Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"No one can keep a secret better than a child"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Do everything as in the eye of another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up!"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself, notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Live truth instead of professing it"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity"

Douglas Adams, Writer

Douglas Adams

"I never thought a role model should be negative"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

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