Quotes about Integrity

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

True friends stab you in the front

The supreme vice is shallowness.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.