Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"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

"He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Saying and doing are two things"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, utters another"

Homer, Poet

"I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, they want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"We need to police ourselves in the media"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition"

John Harington, Writer

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another"

Homer, Poet

"It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"There's hostility to lying, and there should be"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I deal with first-hand sources. And Give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"I will speak with a straight tongue"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth"

Richard Whately, Writer

"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"Honesty is something you can't wear out"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man"

Richard Whately, Writer

"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

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