Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 530 Integrity quotesIntegrity QuotesIntegrity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.~ Confucius If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.~ Confucius The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.~ Confucius You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.~ Joseph Conrad No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...~ Benjamin Constant Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.~ Samuel Cooke We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.~ Marvin Cooley If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.~ Calvin Coolidge I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.~ Calvin Coolidge If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.~ Calvin Coolidge It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.~ James Fenimore Cooper If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.~ Georges Courteline The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.~ Steven R. Covey It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noel Coward It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noël Coward I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.~ Davy Crockett I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.~ Davy Crockett A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president~ Benjamin Curtis My first position is that when Congress speaks of treason, bribery, and other crimes and misdemeanors, it refers to and includes only high criminal offenses against the United States made so by some law of the United States existing when the acts complained of were done. And I say that this is plainly to be inferred from each and every one of the provisions of the constitution on the subject of impeachment.~ Benjamin Curtis Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print