Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind"

Donald Fagen, Musician

"I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent"

Don Hewitt, Producer

"The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise"

Cole Younger, Criminal

"If you really think you're right, you should tell it"

Cass Elliot, Musician

"My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values, are my anchor, and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know"

Bob Weinstein, Producer

"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight"

Chris Bell, Politician

"You never monkey with the truth"

Ben Bradlee, Editor

"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives"

Ben Bernanke, Economist

"To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness"

Arthur Herzog, Novelist

"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent"

Bill Scott, Actor

"I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face"

Chuck D., Musician

"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed, and I, for one, don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising"

Benjamin Henry Day, Artist

"Liars need to have good memories"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another"

Antony Sher, Writer

"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them"

Amy Vanderbilt, Author

"I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them"

Adnan Pachachi, Politician

"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either"

Art Modell, Businessman

"Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present"

Asa Gray, Scientist

"After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process, assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. Never make any compromise with any such men"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"That in affairs of very considerable importance, men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest"

Silvio Berlusconi, Statesman

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad"

Mike Figgis, Director

"You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy"

Mark Messier, Athlete

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity"

Jean Henri Fabre, Author

"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare, but those which escape us unthinkingly"

Ninon de Lenclos, Celebrity

"It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required"

Ivan Goncharov, Novelist

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