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"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country"
George Washington, President
"No one can disgrace us but ourselves"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"Be prepared and be honest"
John Wooden, Coach
"Every man of courage is a man of his word"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once"
Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman
"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people"
Kin Hubbard, Journalist
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication"
Abraham Maslow, Psychologist
"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not"
John Dewey, Philosopher
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage"
Moliere, Playwright
"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit"
Noel Coward, Playwright
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers"
Charles Peguy, Philosopher
"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest"
Norman Douglas, Writer
"The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course"
Edwin Louis Cole, Author
"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness"
Edwin Louis Cole, Author
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right"
John Milton, Poet
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts"
Harold Macmillan, Politician
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess"
John W. Gardner, Educator
"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"A promise must never be broken"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"Lying is done with words and also with silence"
Adrienne Rich, Poet
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught"
Lord Kelvin, Scientist
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