Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election, not deliver. We will not do this"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"Win or lose, do it fairly"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"The third time you say a thing, it sounds like a lie"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Honest labor bears a lovely face"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

"When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy"

Tom Petty, Musician

"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!"

Ezra Taft Benson, Leader

"I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad, I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault"

Ken Burns, Director

"Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs"

Sean Connery, Actor

"This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it"

Pliny the Elder, Author

"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do"

John Cusack, Actor

"Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"Ain't nobody making music to not be heard, and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"I never find sincerity offensive... So, be sincere"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it"

Brigham Young, Leader

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