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Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"To err is human; to admit it, superhuman"
Doug Larson, Cartoonist
Doug Larson
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"Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time"
Arthur Ashe, Athlete
Arthur Ashe
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"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor"
Norman Mailer, Novelist
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"You can't fake listening. It shows"
Raquel Welch, Actress
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"
Paul Theroux, Novelist
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"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business"
Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman
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"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth, that is when I will give my heart"
Shakira, Musician
Shakira
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"A promise made is a debt unpaid"
Robert Service, Poet
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"I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life"
Jon Hamm, Actor
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"I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family"
Foxy Brown, Musician
Foxy Brown
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"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are"
Charlie Bell, Businessman
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"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained"
Lao Tzu, Author
Lao Tzu
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"I'm concerned about the integrity of American elections"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
Charlie Kirk
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"It is extremely difficult to stand up for principles when many of your friends are automatically liberal or just do not care"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
Charlie Kirk
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Benjamin Franklin
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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Benjamin Franklin
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"
Thomas Jefferson, President
Thomas Jefferson
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
Theodore Roosevelt
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you"
William Blake, Poet
William Blake
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"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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"Damn your principles! Stick to your party"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"
Samuel Johnson, Author
Samuel Johnson
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"What you are will show in what you do"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Thomas Edison
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"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore"
Euripides, Poet
Euripides
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"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Public behavior is merely private character writ large"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
Stephen Covey
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"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose"
Ovid, Poet
Ovid
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"Every lie is two lies - the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
Robert Brault
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"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell"
Harry S. Truman, President
Harry S. Truman
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
Ross Perot, Businessman
Ross Perot
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy"
Samuel Butler, Poet
Samuel Butler
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