Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"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

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

Juliette Binoche, Actress

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

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"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

"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'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

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

George McGovern, Politician

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

June Jordan, Writer

"I can live with myself"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"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

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

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

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

James Taylor, Musician

"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 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

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

William Bennett, 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 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

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback"

Bill Copeland, Athlete

"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

"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious"

Neil Innes, Writer

"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

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

John Tillotson, Theologian

"I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

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