Quotes about Integrity
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
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
— Herbert Hoover
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
— Herman Melville
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
— Jesse Jackson