Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Be as you wish to seem"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

W. Clement Stone

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"I like honesty and fair play"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Marcus Garvey

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"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

George Washington

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"No one can disgrace us but ourselves"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"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

Douglas MacArthur

"Be prepared and be honest"

John Wooden, Coach

John Wooden

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Every man of courage is a man of his word"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"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

Dag Hammarskjold

"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"I have tried so hard to do right"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"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

John Dewey

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

Otto von Bismarck

"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

Abraham Maslow

"No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

Walter Benjamin

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"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

Lord Chesterfield

"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

Woodrow Wilson

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