Quotes about Integrity

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.