Quotes about Integrity

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.

In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say 'Here is the sin that makes the public sin'.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail, and it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.