Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface"

James Bryant Conant, Scientist

"I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had"

Jean O'Leary, Activist

"For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels"

Paul Anka, Musician

"I am not a rabid partisan"

Joe Wilson, Politician

"We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"I don't debate with liars"

Evo Morales, Statesman

"Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality, but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth"

Eric Carr, Musician

"Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"It's important to stand up for what you believe in"

Cody Linley, Actor

"I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy"

Slick Rick, Musician

"Every day I get more and more honest"

Jeff Probst, Entertainer

"There is no diplomacy like candor"

Edward V. Lucas, Writer

"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity"

Arthur Cohn, Producer

"As far as the charge against me is concerned, I have a clear conscience"

Wilhelm Frick, Celebrity

"Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious"

Robert Blair, Poet

"I have to stay true to myself"

Rob Corddry, Comedian

"Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad"

Toby Keith, Musician

"I have done what I felt to be my duty"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes"

Peter Arnett, Journalist

"The American public is sick and tired of being lied to"

Patrick Leahy, Politician

"I still had some honor... I still have some now"

Roman Polanski, Director

"As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character"

Tommy Franks, Soldier

"When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him"

Paul Broun, Politician

"And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism"

Maria Shriver, Journalist

"You don't tell us how to stage the news, and we don't tell you how to cover it"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office, I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the Secretary of State under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999"

Kenneth Robert Livingstone, Politician

"Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known"

Robert Torricelli, Politician

"Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty"

Lance Loud, Actor

"At least I'm going into the job with clean hands"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, but you will love me later because I told you the truth"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good"

Peter Cooper, Inventor

"If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am"

Ryan Giggs, Athlete

"The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could"

Robert Sheckley, Author

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