Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"A promise made should be a promise kept"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately"

Catherine Bell, Model

"Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself"

Shakira, Musician

"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters"

John Burns, Activist

"Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character"

James Taylor, Musician

"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 think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid"

Keith Miller, Author

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"When he speaks to you, he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations"

Chris Patten, Politician

"I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful, and caring"

Prince William, Royalty

"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned"

Alfred Marshall, Economist

"Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

"I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm just trying to tell my side of the story"

O.J. Simpson, Athlete

"I'm a good guy. I've been a good guy for 50 years"

O.J. Simpson, Athlete

"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest"

Mark Strand, Poet

"If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell"

Laura Riding, Poet

"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word"

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions"

Junius, Writer

"Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did"

Clay Aiken, Musician

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