Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Knight without fear and without reproach"

Richard Harris Barham, Comedian

"You know, I'm pretty much an open book"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore"

Harmon Killebrew, Athlete

"You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one"

Robert Smith Surtees, Novelist

"I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"Honesty is the most single most important factor, having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product"

Ed McMahon, Entertainer

"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me"

Danny Glover, Actor

"I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right"

Louise Woodward, Celebrity

"I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I'm just truly out of things to say. I'm on the record about everything"

Thomas Wilson, Writer

"I'd like to be known for my character"

Soundarya, Actress

"Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember"

Rand Beers, Soldier

"If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Honestly achieved results surpass all others"

Michael Diamond, Musician

"If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble"

Don Nickles, Politician

"I have no affectation when I speak"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy"

Jack Brickhouse, Celebrity

"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes, again, more interesting it equal"

Michelle Hunziker, Actress

"Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index"

Natalie Merchant, Musician

"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"

Lane Kirkland, Activist

"When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks, and I've been faithful to that pledge"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I used all diligence to arrive at London, and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them"

Henry Hudson, Explorer

"Even good people are obliged to deceive"

Greg LeMond, Athlete

"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us"

Francis Maude, Politician

"I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor"

Kabir Bedi, Actor

"So when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty"

Mira Nair, Director

"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record"

Grace Napolitano, Politician

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