Integrity Quotes

“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.”

“An honest man has nothing to fear, so he has nothing to hide.”

“I am not a perfect President. I have made mistakes. But I have never been corrupt.”

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

“Probis probatum potius quam multis fore.”

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

“The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.”

“A good name is better than precious ointment.”

“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then-he needn't hope to find himself again.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”

“But what matters to me is not whether it's true or not but that I believe it to be true, or rather, not that I believe it, but that *I* believe it.”

“We take the position that we are not going to be rats because somebody else is a rat.”

“If being a good priest means being obedient to a corrupt system, then I choose not to be a 'good priest' in their eyes.”

“We're not in the business of making friends. We're in the business of getting it right.”

“I think there's a certain integrity that you have to have in this business.”

“I have no reason to hide. I have nothing to hide.”

“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.”

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