Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background, it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life"

Rachel Zoe, Designer

"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted"

William Cobbett, Politician

"I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real, and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know, as long as you say you don't know it"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

"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

"You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"If you are not serious, people will sense it"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships"

Gabriel Macht, Actor

"Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy"

Coolio, Musician

"People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right"

Frank Iero, Musician

"He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may"

Roscoe Conkling, Politician

"This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment"

Jim Jeffords, Politician

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people"

Elijah Wood, Actor

"One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly"

Bob Filner, Politician

"In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Honesty will never break you"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am"

Robert Barnes, Celebrity

"I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not"

Anne Heche, Actress

"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards"

Saskya Pandita, Leader

"It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land"

Jim Costa, Politician

"I was raised to pretend"

Anne Heche, Actress

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

James Larkin, Activist

"I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"The essence of good government is trust"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"I'm being honest, I say what I think"

Boy George, Musician

"I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win, and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth, and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times"

Wen Ho Lee, Scientist

"I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"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

"Don't we all just really try to fake it well?"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"A liar should have a good memory"

Quintilian, Educator

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