Uprightness Quotes

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

You need a president whom you can trust, someone who will not steal your money, a president who is sincere, brave and just.

Some defeats are better than victories. A defeat endured as the result of contest conducted in a fair and honorable manner is a thousand times more creditable to the defeated party than a victory gained by all the mean and unscrupulous arts of the wire pullers.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

Integrity is everything to me.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

I will not steal a victory.

Justice is an important obligation to Allah and to man. You have been charged with this responsibility. Discharge this responsibility so that you may win the approbation of Allah and the good will of the people. Treat the people equally in your presence, and in your decisions, so that the weak despair not of justice, and the high-placed harbor no hope of favoritism.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.