Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

A promise must never be broken.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Live truth instead of professing it.

A lie cannot live.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.