Quotes on integrity
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
Thoene, Bodie
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Marlowe, Christopher
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Paine, Thomas
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Shaw, George Bernard
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Proverb, Japanese
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Paine, Thomas
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Auerbach, Red
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Jefferson, Thomas
Conscience warns us before it reproaches us.
Comtesse Diane
I would rather be right than President.
Clay, Henry
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Shaw, George Bernard
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Twain, Mark
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.
Child, Lydia M.
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.
Alius, Corri
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare, William
Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.
Handbook, Nordstrom's Employee
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.
Twain, Mark
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.
Lopez, Barry
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Proverb, French
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Luther, Martin
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Paine, Thomas
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Wilde, Oscar
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Rogers, Will
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare, William
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Lincoln, Abraham
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
Unknown, Author
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
Unknown, Author
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Courteline, Georges