Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished"

Willem Dafoe, Actor

"Our whole philosophy is one of transparency"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"My commitment is my commitment"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"

Sydney Madwed, Businessman

"I won't tolerate lying"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"I never did anything I'm really ashamed of"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"He was a man, he always performed his promises"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public, my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys"

Stephen Hopkins, Writer

"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely"

Tom Verlaine, Musician

"So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions"

Ron Moody, Actor

"When something is troubling me, people know about it"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success"

Vanessa Redgrave, Actress

"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable, and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"Acting doesn't suffice"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify"

Jeff Gannon, Journalist

"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing"

Emma Stone, Actress

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness"

John Howe, Artist

"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it!"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here, and tell you that if you elect me, you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said"

Robert Evans, Director

"Self-justification is a treacherous servant"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight"

John Pomfret

"Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it"

Mort Walker, Artist

"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible"

George Bancroft, Historian

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