Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"A good reputation is more valuable than money"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"A half-truth is usually less than half of that"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism"

George Washington, President

George Washington

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

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

"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

"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

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

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"All is lost save honor"

Francis I of France, Royalty

Francis I of France

"I would rather be right than President"

Henry Clay, Statesman

Henry Clay

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

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good"

Joe Paterno, Coach

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

Dean Kamen, Inventor

Dean Kamen

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

Edith Stein, Saint

"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

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Honesty is the best policy"

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

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

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"An honest man is always a child"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

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

Horace, Poet

"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

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"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

"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"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

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

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