Quotes about Integrity

When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.

What you dont want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The Master was entirely free of four faults: arbitrariness, inflexibility, rigidity, and selfishness.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.

The naked man fear no pickpocket.

A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you.

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Truth has no temperature.