Integrity Quotes And Sayings

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“If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.”
– Johann Sigurjonsson

“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.”
– John Lubbock

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
– Joseph Baretti

“Have a very good reason for everything you do.”
– Laurence Olivier

“Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.”
– Léon Blum

“Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

“We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

“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.”
– Lydia M. Child

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.”
– Mario Cuomo

“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?”
– Mark Twain

“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
– Mark Twain

“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.”
– Mark Twain

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
– Mark Twain

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain

“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.  Or needs to.”
– Mark Twain

“But that’s always the way; it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.  If I had a yaller dog that didn’t know no more than a person’s conscience does I would pison him.  It takes up more room than all the rest of a person’s insides, and yet ain’t no good, nohow.”
– Mark Twain, Huck Finn

“A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals.  I have within me the great pope, Self.”
– Martin Luther

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.”
– Mary Renault

“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.”
– Matthew Henry

“Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.”
– Michael Iapoce

“Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”
– Michael Josephson

“People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.”
– Michael Josephson

“We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.”
– Michael Josephson

“Values are good things only if they are good values.”
– Michael Josephson

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.”
– Michel de Montaigne

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