Quotes about Integrity
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
— James A. Garfield
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
— John Calvin
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
— Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde