Integrity Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Abraham Lincoln,
Michel de Montaigne,
William Shakespeare,
Mark Twain,
Oscar Wilde
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| Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. |
| - Isaac Asimov |
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| The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Your life may be the only Bible some people read. |
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| My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. |
| - Joseph Baretti |
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| I ran the wrong kinds of business, but I did it with integrity |
| - Sydney Biddle Barrows |
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| In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. |
| - Buddha |
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| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. |
| - Pablo Casals |
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| Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. |
| - Lydia Maria Child |
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| I would rather be right than President. |
| - Henry Clay |
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| I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. |
| - Frank Moore Colby |
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| If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. |
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. |
| - Confucius |
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| If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. |
| - Georges Courteline |
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| It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. |
| - Noël Coward |
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| Be always sure you're right, then go ahead. |
| - Davy Crockett |
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| You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. |
| - Charles Dickens |
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| To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. |
| - Will Durant |
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| In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. |
| - Meister Eckhart |
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| Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. |
| - William Faulkner |
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| A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. |
| - Indira Gandhi |
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| I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. |
| - Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? |
| - William Lloyd Garrison |
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| Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. |
| - Thomas Hardy |
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| A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. |
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) |
| - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. |
| - Matthew Henry |
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| The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. |
| - Charles Evans Hughes |
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| Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. |
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. |
| - David Star Jordan |
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| Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. |
| - Ann Landers |
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| When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. |
| - Max Lerner |
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| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Every man over forty is responsible for his face. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. |
| - John Lubbock |
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| I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. |
| - Martin Luther |
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| The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. |
| - Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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| You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. |
| - Jean Baptiste Molière |
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| Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Character is much easier kept than recovered. |
| - Thomas Paine |
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| My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
| - Thomas Paine |
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| The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. |
| - French Proverb |
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| One does evil enough when one does nothing good. |
| - German Proverb |
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| The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. |
| - Japanese Proverb |
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| Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. |
| - William Safire |
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| Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. |
| - George Santayana |
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| If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? |
| - Socrates |
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| The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. |
| - Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
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| Goodness is the only investment that never fails. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| 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 |
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| Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. |
| - J.C. Watts |
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| I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. |
| - Oprah Winfrey |
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