Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are"

John Wooden, Coach

John Wooden

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; credible, we must be truthful"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

Roy L. Smith

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"All is lost save honor"

Francis I of France, Royalty

Francis I of France

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"I would rather be right than President"

Henry Clay, Statesman

Henry Clay

"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

Dean Kamen

"You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart"

John Ford, Dramatist

"The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith"

Andy Williams, Musician

"Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them"

Norodom Sihanouk, Royalty

Norodom Sihanouk

"To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections"

Peter Schuyler, Politician

Peter Schuyler

"He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to prison"

Daniel Drew, Businessman

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"An honest man is always a child"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"He is armed without who is innocent within, Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

Horace, Poet

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion, we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"To err is human; to admit it, superhuman"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

Doug Larson

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"You can't fake listening. It shows"

Raquel Welch, Actress

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth, that is when I will give my heart"

Shakira, Musician

Shakira

"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are"

Edith Stein, Saint

"A promise made is a debt unpaid"

Robert Service, Poet

"I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life"

Jon Hamm, Actor

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