Integrity Quotes And Sayings

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“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”
– Socrates

“Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ”
– Suzanne Necker

“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.”
– Thomas Fuller

“Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.”
– Thomas Hardy

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.”
– Thomas Jefferson9

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
– Thomas Paine

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
– Thomas Paine

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
– Thomas Paine

“A healthy mind has an easy breath.”
– Unknown

“And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
– Unknown

“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.”
– Unknown

“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”
– Unknown

“Have no fear of robbers or murderers.  They are external dangers, petty dangers.  We should fear ourselves.  Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders.  The great dangers are within us.  Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses?  Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”
– Victor Hugo

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.”
– Will Durant

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
– Will Rogers

“If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.”
– William Arnot

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
– William Lloyd Garrison

“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
– William Lloyd Garrison

“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”
– William Safire

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare

“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
– William Shakespeare

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

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