Quotes about Integrity
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
— Thomas a Kempis
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
— Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
— William Faulkner
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
— Henry Ward Beecher