Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Louise Woodward, Celebrity

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