Quotes about Integrity
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
— Aristotle
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
— Aristotle
The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.
— Aristotle
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
— Aristotle
While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
— Aristotle
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
— Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
— Aristotle
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
— Arthur Ashe
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
— Julian Casablancas