Quotes about Integrity

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

True friends stab you in the front

The supreme vice is shallowness.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.