Quotes about Integrity
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.
— Oswald Chambers
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
— Oswald Chambers
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau