Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing"

Dennis Moore, Politician

"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience"

Curt Siodmak, Novelist

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"When I'm onstage, they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can"

Chubby Checker, Musician

"It's when someone has an agenda of their own, for the record, that it doesn't work for me"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"To be in this business, and have tremendous integrity, and only make distinguished choices is very tough"

Alec Baldwin, Actor

"If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"I think, I would guess most people keep secrets"

Beau Bridges, Actor

"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent"

Alison Lurie, Novelist

"Command those that govern your house, before all you household, that they keep careful watch, that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest, and profitable"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"Attribution is power"

Jeff Rich, Explorer

"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth, and you know what the next question is going to be"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"He hath freedom, whoso beareth clean and constant heart within"

Quintus Ennius, Poet

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"And yet, because of my attempt at sincerity, I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self"

Erich von Stroheim, Actor

"The tongue can lie, but your deeds cannot; judge yourself by what you do"

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Poet

"The greatest wealth is not in possessions, but in a clean conscience and a disciplined mind"

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Poet

"A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen"

Matt Shea, Lawyer

"If you're wanting me to besmirch somebody's reputation so that there would be some sort of division created out of it, I'm not going to do that ... If you're asking if I believe my opponent is a fake conservative, the answer to that question is yes, 100 percent"

Matt Shea, Lawyer

"I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign"

Matt Shea, Lawyer

"I am saddened by the release by a national media outlet of my opponent's involvement in pornography. I strongly condemn the release of this information. Our campaign was aware of this information several months ago, and made a very determined decision to not use or disperse this information in any way, shape,or form"

Matt Shea, Lawyer

"I'm always going to speak my mind"

Cardi B, Musician

"If you can't be honest about your pain, you can't be honest about your purpose"

Kirk Franklin, Musician

"I would rather be honest and hated than dishonest and loved"

Kirk Franklin, Musician

"If you can't be honest in your art, where can you be honest?"

Mitski, Musician

"Imagine a President who actually, day in and day out, does what he said he would do"

Ted Cruz, Politician

"There are worse things in life than losing an election. There are worse things than losing your job. There are worse things than losing your fortune. There are worse things than losing your reputation. There are worse things than losing even your life. And the worst thing you can do is not stand for your principles"

Ted Cruz, Politician

"Everything I do is from the heart. If it's not from the heart, I don't want to do it"

Teyana Taylor, Musician

"I'm big on ownership. If you can own it, own it"

Teyana Taylor, Musician

"Sometimes the only way through is to tell the truth about where you are"

Jenna Bush Hager, Journalist

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