Quotes about Integrity

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

He who eats my bread does my will.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.

Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.