Robert Bolt Quotes

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

Integrity is never painless.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.