Quotes about Integrity

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Love, and do what you like.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.