Quotes about Integrity
Doing well is a result of doing good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson