Quotes On Integrity

You will be a finer character if you go along on your own, than if you copy other people. You see, what you do, you do whole-heartedly - so if you play the fool, naturally other things will suffer.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.