Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"It doesn't matter what you believe, just so long as you're sincere"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

Charles M. Schulz

"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"The worst crime is faking it"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath"

Solon, Statesman

Solon

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"Character, not circumstances, makes the man"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

Booker T. Washington

"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"If now isn't a good time for the truth, I don't see when we'll get to it"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"Character is more important than talent"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct, though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Crying wolf is a real danger"

David Attenborough, Journalist

David Attenborough

"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

Norman Schwarzkopf

"I always say, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust?"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

Meyer Lansky

"Clean up your own mess"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

Roy T. Bennett

"Is there decency left in American politics?"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost"

John Quincy Adams, President

John Quincy Adams

"In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented"

Richard Wright, Novelist

Richard Wright

"I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals, I get a little hung up on"

Brad Pitt, Actor

Brad Pitt

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