Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right"

Charles Evers, Activist

"When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy"

Barry White, Musician

"There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back"

Adam Clymer, Journalist

"I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"I'm easy driving, but I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that"

Ray Davies, Musician

"I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me"

Vanessa Williams, Musician

"Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I may be revered or defamed and decried; but I tried to live my life right"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"In the West, you take people at their word"

Ken Salazar, Politician

"I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted"

Michael Musto, Writer

"My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"I want to say here and now that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be"

Dick Murphy, Politician

"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence"

Lemuel K. Washburn, Writer

"Being real is what is important"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank"

Douglas Wilson, Entertainer

"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North, and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this"

Fawn Hall, Celebrity

"I fight fairly, and in good faith"

Edmond About, Novelist

"The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today, let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest"

John Lynch, Politician

"Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves"

Norman Tebbit, Statesman

"I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!"

W. Mark Felt, Public Servant

"Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words"

Zell Miller, Politician

"There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think"

Sigourney Weaver, Actress

"Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets"

Charles Grassley, Politician

"'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it"

Leonard Bacon, Clergyman

"Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?"

Michael Madsen, Actor

"The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

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