Integrity, Honesty and Virtue Quotes
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“It is easy to see the faults of others, but not so easy to see one’s own faults.” Gautama Buddha (563-483 BC)
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“What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.” Eldridge Cleaver
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“You see in others what you actually see in yourself.” The Guru Dronacharya in Mahabharata
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“I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.” Kabir, Saint Poet of North India
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“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.” Bourke Cockran
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“So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.” Andre Gide
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“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” Frederick Douglass (1818- 1895), escaped slave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.” Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
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“A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers—and this is the basis of all human morality.” John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th US President
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“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.” Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French playwright
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“The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.” John Dewey (1859-1952)
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“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” George Bernard Shaw
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“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.” Thomas Fuller
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“So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.” Mahatma Gandhi
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King Jr., “The Trumpet of Conscience”, 1967
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“The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King
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“The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” Voltaire
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“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.” James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), British historian
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