Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Accountability is doing what you say you're going to do"

Mike Vrabel, Coach

"I think the most radical thing you can do is be honest about who you are"

Natasha Lyonne, Actress

"We can do better, but we have to be honest about what's broken"

J. D. Vance, Politician

"Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity"

Tommy Lee Jones, Actor

"Profit per se is not my motive"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"I think it's important to stand up for what you believe in, even if it's not the popular thing to do"

Robert Kardashian, Lawyer

"People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with"

Bruce Campbell, Actor

"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all"

Merle Shain, Author

"Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them"

Brian Koslow

"The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this!"

Jack Kelley, Journalist

"We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception"

Edward V. Lucas, Writer

"I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair"

Donald M. Payne, Politician

"The walls are raised against honest men in civic life"

William H. O'Connell, Clergyman

"Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct"

Anna Howard Shaw, Activist

"Jack, the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all"

Meg White, Musician

"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority, and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren"

Tom Coburn, Politician

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people"

Joseph Wambaugh, Writer

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide"

John Thaw, Actor

"In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it"

Ray Blanton, Politician

"All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies"

Tina Louise, Actress

"When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out, there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end, that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right"

Craig Stevens, Athlete

"I think it's very easy to get corrupted"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody"

David Shuster, Journalist

"I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted"

Bela Kun, Politician

"Your word is your bond"

Melvyn Douglas, Actor

"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten"

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

"I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries"

Jose Ramos-Horta, Politician

"And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe"

Todd Rundgren, Musician

"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

"Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

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