Quotes on Integrity And Character

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their souls those principles of personal purity, integrity, and character which foster the development of peace. Peace cannot be imposed. It must come from the lives and hearts of men. There is no other way.