Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings"

Howard Dean, Politician

"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"We don't break the law"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor

"Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke"

William Feather, Author

"Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door"

Vernon Howard, Author

"Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful, not to hurt anybody. He's skillful"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"We have to say what we believe... Whether it's popular or not"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Debts and lies are generally mixed together"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"I call God to witness that, as a private person, I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place"

Francis Walsingham, Celebrity

"Our best comes out when we have honest discussions"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"A few honest men are better than numbers"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"It is better to be thought perverse than insincere"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"Calamity is the test of integrity"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I would never do anything just for spite"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State"

John Burns, Activist

"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time, using your clout when you have it, and what for and what reason"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest"

June Jordan, Writer

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