Quotes about Integrity

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

You lose it if you talk about it.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.