Integrity Quotes And Sayings

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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
– David Star Jordan

“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.”
– Doug Larson

“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”
– Dwight Lyman Moody

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.”
– Eleanora Duse

“Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”
– Frank Moore Colby

“There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.”
– Frederick W. Faber

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”
– French Proverb

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
– G.B. Shaw

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
– George Washington

“If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.”
– Georges Courteline

“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”
– German Proverb

“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.”
– Harper Lee

“I would rather be right than President.”
– Henry Clay

“The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
– Henry Louis Mencken

“Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others.”
– Henry Taylor

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.”
– Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

“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.”
– Indira Gandhi

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.”
– Isaac Asimov

“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.”
– J.C. Watts

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
– Jackson Brown

“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”
– Japanese Proverb

“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.”
– Jean Baptiste Molière

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