Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"A good name is rather to be chosen than riches"

King Solomon, Royalty

Boyd Rice, Artist

"I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"The upward course of a nation's history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its average men and women"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks"

Georges Duhamel, Novelist

"If you're not going to tell something, if you're not going to expose something, it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera, and not expose any of your weaknesses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real"

J Balvin, Musician

"It's not about being perfect; it's about being real"

J Balvin, Musician

"It's better to make something small that's honest than something big that's fake"

Jay Duplass, Actor

"Somewhere in the middle, I think I lied a little"

Sabrina Carpenter, Musician

"I'm full of regret, but I'm not gonna lie to you"

Sabrina Carpenter, Musician

"The most important thing is to be yourself and to be honest with yourself"

Idris Elba, Actor

"For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you"

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic

"I think that I have sold out sometimes"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that"

David Arquette, Actor

"Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets"

William Laud, Clergyman

"Sure, I could of done it different... Put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"But I love honesty, and, therefore, do I make great account of facts"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Earlier on in my career, I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have!"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love"

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Author

"People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton'"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true"

Nicolette Sheridan, Actress

"Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"The externals are important, but I'm not interested in superficiality"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

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