Integrity Quotes And Sayings

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“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Just do good, don’t worry about the road ahead.”
– Monk Wansong

“As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.”
– Morihei Ueshiba

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
– Noël Coward

“Rule #1:  Use your good judgment in all situations.  There will be no additional rules.”
– Nordstrom

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.”
– Oscar Wilde

“[T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted.  I don’t accept it.”
– Pablo Casals

“Take care that no one hates you justly.”
– Publilius Syrus

“Character is higher than intellect.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.”
– Red Auerbach

“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.  All other “sins” are invented nonsense.  (Hurting yourself is not a sin – just stupid.)”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.”
– Robert Brault

“You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.”
– Robert Brault

“I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.”
– Robert Brault

“Be careful of selfish motives.  You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.”
– Robert Brault

“There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.”
– Robert Brault

“You do not wake up one morning a bad person.  It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.”
– Robert Brault

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.”
– Robert Brault

“You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.”
– Rwandan Proverb

“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
– Samuel Butler

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
– Samuel Johnson

“If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.”
– Samuel P. Ginder

“For the human mind is seldom at stay:  If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.”
– Samuel Richardson

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