Quotes about Integrity

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

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

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.