Quotes about Integrity

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.