Quotes on integrity
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
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Bodie Thoene Quotes
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
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Christopher Marlowe Quotes
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Thomas Paine Quotes
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
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Japanese Proverb Quotes
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Thomas Paine Quotes
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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Red Auerbach Quotes
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
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Author Unknown Quotes
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
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J.C. Watts Quotes
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
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Frederick W. Faber Quotes
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
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Chester W. Nimitz Quotes
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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Buddha Quotes
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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Frank Moore Colby Quotes
Conscience warns us before it reproaches us.
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Comtesse Diane Quotes
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I would rather be right than President.
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Henry Clay Quotes
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.
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Michael Iapoce Quotes
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
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Albert Camus Quotes
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
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Indira Gandhi Quotes
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
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Mary Renault Quotes
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
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William Safire Quotes
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Aristotle Quotes
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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Socrates Quotes
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Every human being has an attendant spirit. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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Lydia M. Child Quotes
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.
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Corri Alius Quotes
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
Your life may be the only Bible some people read.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.
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Nordstrom's Employee Handbook Quotes
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Barry Lopez Quotes
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
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French Proverb Quotes
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
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Martin Luther Quotes
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
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Bert Murray Quotes
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
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Laurence Olivier Quotes
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
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Immanuel Hermass von Fichte Quotes
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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Thomas Paine Quotes
Take care that no one hates you justly.
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Publilius Syrus Quotes
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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Pablo Casals Quotes
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
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William Arnot Quotes
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Will Rogers Quotes
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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Joseph Baretti Quotes
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
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Author Unknown Quotes
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Harper Lee Quotes
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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Alan Simpson Quotes
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The time is always right to do what is right.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
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Confucius Quotes
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
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Georges Courteline Quotes
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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Mario Cuomo Quotes
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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B.C. Forbes Quotes
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
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Samuel P. Ginder Quotes
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
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John Lubbock Quotes
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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James D. Miles Quotes
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
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Rwandan Proverb Quotes
Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
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Henry Taylor Quotes