Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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Emily Bronte, Novelist

"I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards"

Texas Guinan, Businessman

"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them!"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Too many terms corrupts politicians, so they only want to be reelected"

Alice Paul, Activist

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable, but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things"

Robert Southey, Poet

"I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin"

Hesiod, Poet

"A clear conscience is a sure card"

John Lyly, Writer

"If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Do not deceive or be faithless, even with your enemy"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"He that loseth his honesty, hath nothing else to lose"

John Lyly, Writer

"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on"

Edward W. Howe, Writer

"If I felt that one of my operas did not come off, I would certainly say so"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough"

Edward W. Howe, Writer

"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that"

Anita Hill, Professor

"Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

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