Quotes about Integrity
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
— John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
— John Quincy Adams
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
— John Updike
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
— John Updike
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
— John Wesley
As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.
— John Wesley
Do not despise or run down any preacher; do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God.
— John Wesley
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
— John Wooden
Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
— John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden