Quotes about Integrity
It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
[T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
— Winston Churchill
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
— Hannah More
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
— Hannah More
This, too, is a way of reaching out for the divine peace in the universe, a peace that so preserves each thing that it never deviates from being itself... and continues to perform its own operation.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.
— Harold S. Kushner
Until I die, I will maintain my integrity.
— Harold S. Kushner
My list of the worst offenses against God would begin with hurting another person, cheating another person, shaming another person.
— Harold S. Kushner