Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"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

"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

"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"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

"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

"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"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

"Don't lie if you don't have to"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

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

Scott Speedman, Actor

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"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

"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

"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"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

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"Sure, I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that"

Nathan Lane, Actor

"I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men"

James Larkin, Activist

"I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that"

David Lloyd, Artist

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

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it"

Vivian Stanshall, Musician

"Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"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 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

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