Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I have no regrets because I did everything by the book"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion, and which we should all do well to imitate"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen"

Bill Owens, Politician

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

Bill Copeland, Athlete

"So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"I'd rather not have anything than be a liar"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust"

Elton John, Musician

"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"In order to remain true to oneself, one ought to renounce one's party three times a day"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

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

Neil Innes, Writer

"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"I prefer to tell an uncomfortable truth rather than a comfortable lie"

Javier Milei, President

"I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be"

Crystal Waters, Musician

"I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican Party"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"I try to tell the truth"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused, I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"We cannot, certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in"

River Phoenix, Actor

"I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I think I've been a great citizen"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"It is very wicked for you not to take care of your master's goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"A good historian is timeless. Although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off"

Harry Anderson, Actor

"It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

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