Quotes about Integrity
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
We should be men first, and subjects afterward.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.
— Henry David Thoreau
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
— Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
— Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
— Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
— Henry David Thoreau
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
— Henry David Thoreau
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.
— Henry David Thoreau