Honor And Integrity Quotes - Page 2

• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Confidence, Honesty

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.113

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• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

  David Starr Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

  Bert Murray

  Integrity, Character, Voice

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• I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!

  Karl G. Maeser

  Wall, Truth, Lying

  "The Circle of Honor" by David Brooksby, www.ldsbc.edu. June 05, 2012.

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• What is left when honor is lost?

  Publilius Syrus

  Integrity, Honor, Lost

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 265, 1856.

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Integrity, Character

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.

  John D. MacDonald

  Integrity, Blow, Wind

  "The Turquoise Lament". Interview with John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Integrity, Character

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

  William Safire

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

  Moliere

  Integrity, Heart, Would Be

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• Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Integrity, Insperational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Integrity, Character, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  "In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery". Book by Karen Casey, 1991.

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