Quotes about Integrity

Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.

If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.

I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends.

There's a way to train a horse where when you get done you've got the horse. On his own ground. A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what's in his heart. He wont do one thing while you're watching him and another when you aint. He's all of a piece. When you've got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do somethin he knows is wrong. He'll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart.

In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk.

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.

I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.