Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"One promises much, to avoid giving little"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide"

Andrew Johnson, President

"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have"

George Galloway, Politician

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"You can say the opposite of something you've said, but you can't do the opposite of something you've done"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that!"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... Yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Character is destiny, and character is important to American campaigns"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse"

John Quincy Adams, President

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

Henry Rollins, Musician

"The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth"

James Allen, Author

"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"I don't trust a lot of journalists"

Calvin Klein, Designer

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

Henry Rollins, Musician

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that"

Al Franken, Comedian

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping"

Izaak Walton, Writer

"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one"

J. P. Morgan, Businessman

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of before I became President of the U.S"

James K. Polk, President

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