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Quotes about Integrity

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.
— Joseph Wirthlin
This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
— Herbert Hoover
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.
— Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
— Thomas Jefferson
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
— Thomas Merton
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
— Thomas Paine
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
— Thomas Paine
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
— Thomas Paine
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
— Thomas Paine