Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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Matthew Henry, Clergyman

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

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

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

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"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

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

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"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

"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

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

Pliny the Elder, Author

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"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

"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

"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

"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

"Debts and lies are generally mixed together"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"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

"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

"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

"As long as I tell the truth, I feel that nobody can touch me"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"Honest labor bears a lovely face"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

"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

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

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"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

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

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

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

Edward Coke, Businessman

"I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

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

Nicole Kidman, Actress

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

Tom Petty, Musician

"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

"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

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