Quotes about Integrity
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is that which can do without success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing well is a result of doing good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson