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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Sep 12, 2025
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Never forget that you are a [child] of God. He loves you. Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. Sometimes it is not easy, and you may be standing alone for a while. Look for friends with integrity and character, then go to them and express appreciation for their examples. You might even find someone who has been feeling as lonely as you. Pray for guidance and protection from the Lord. He will sustain you. He will become a trusted friend, and you will discover that your example will attract many friends who will take courage from your strength of character.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviors to advance your own personal interest, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.