Quotes about Integrity
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson