Explore Quotes on Integrity

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.