Integrity
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- A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.
- A friend once won need never be lost, if we will be only trusty and true ourselves.
- A friend that you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be.
- A good character is a coat of triple steel, giving security to the wearer, protection to the oppressed, and inspiring the oppressor with awe.
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us without.
- A good heart will rather lie low in the dust, than rise to the greatest height by wickedness.
- A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- A good name is better than riches.
- A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
- A great integrity makes us immortal; an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.
- A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
- A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.
- A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
- A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
- A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- A man's life is always more forcible than his speech; when men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as pounds and his words as pence.
- A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
- A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
- A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
- A strong work ethic doesn’t guarantee strong ethics.
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
- Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong.
- All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
- All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Always be radically honest, but use your honesty as a gift not as a weapon. Your honesty should benefit others.
- Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
- Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.
- ALWAYS give good example: teach virtue by word and deed. Example is more powerful than discourse.
- Always take the high road, it’s far less crowded.
- An appointment is a contract, express or implied, and he who does not keep it breaks faith, as well as dishonestly uses other people's time, and thus inevitably loses character.
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.