Quotes about Integrity
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is that which can do without success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
— Ralph Waldo Emerson