Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did, betray my own soul"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Nothing is worse or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve"

Bob Riley, Politician

"The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth"

Kent Conrad, Politician

"No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public"

George McGovern, Politician

"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created, by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk"

Suge Knight, Producer

"I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac"

Zac Efron, Actor

"And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright Amendment today"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice"

Kurt Huber, Professor

"I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh"

Shelby Foote, Author

"I mean, normally, you have your agent call the other agent, and all the agents talk, and then finally you get a phone call, and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing"

John Perkins, Economist

"I only do what comes from the heart"

LL Cool J, Musician

"It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so!"

Junius, Writer

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies"

William Bennett, Politician

"I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty"

Frank Langella, Actor

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