Quotes about Integrity
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
— Samuel Johnson
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
— Herbert Hoover
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
— Marcus Aurelius
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
— Marcus Aurelius
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
— Confucius
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
— Anonymous
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
— Charles Swindoll
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher