Quotes about Integrity

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Right is more precious than peace.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.