Quotes about Integrity

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

We all must try to be good.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.

Resolve is not incompatible with Christian humility.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

There are a few blacks who have the courage to speak honestly about immorality within the black culture, and whites should work with them to help unite the races with truth.

Be who you are and be that well.