Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe, just so you're sincere"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

Charles M. Schulz

"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"He preaches well that lives well"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"I try to be the same person I was yesterday"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

Brian Mulroney

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"It takes good memory to keep up a lie"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"A good memory is needed after one has lied"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

Henrik Ibsen

"I've never dropped anyone I believed in"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"I believe in the power of transparency and openness. We need to be honest with our people and let them know what is happening in our country"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

Volodymyr Zelensky

"Party honesty is party expediency"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust!"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"The man that makes a character, makes foes"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

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