Quotes about Integrity

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Once it was easy to know who were my people... I do not believe our wants have made all our lies holy.

Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.