Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open"

Elmer G. Letterman, General

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe"

Imran Khan, Politician

Imran Khan

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are"

John Wooden, Coach

John Wooden

"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"We are men of action, lies do not become us"

William Goldman, Novelist

"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

Bob Woodward

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to prison"

Daniel Drew, Businessman

"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything"

Claude McKay, Writer

"Life, every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is left when honor is lost?"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

Mary H. Waldrip

"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

Tiger Woods

"Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives"

Paul Gerhardt, Writer

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Tell the children the truth"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

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