Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief "

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me, as I find it both ugly and base, not to dare to avouch for them"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"An honest man's the noblest work of God"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"It is a blessed thing that in every age, some one has had the individuality enough, and courage enough, to stand by his own convictions"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Character is much easier kept than recovered"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses, that which we would be capable of doing before everyone"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do"

Donald Trump, Businessman

Donald Trump

"Voters quickly forget what a man says"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

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