Avenues to Integrity

The Avenues to Integrity 

Integrity Quotes for College Students *

• When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
  - Japanese Proverb
• We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
  - Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American author, philosopher and longshoreman
  Photograph of Eric Hoffer by George Knight, 1964. Courtesy Book Arts & Special Collections,
  San Francisco Public Library

  
  

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
  - Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian novelist and philosopher
  

  
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• A president's task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
  - Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States
• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?
  - Akhenaton, (c. B.C. 1375), Pharaoh of Egypt
• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
  - Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, Alsatian humanitarian, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate
• No man is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
  - John Adams, 1735-1826, Second President of the United States
• They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
  - Plato, c 427-347 BCE, Greek philosopher
• If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
  - Lois McMaster Bujold, Born 1949, American author of science fiction and fantasy works
• Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  - Horace Mann, 1796-1859, American educational reformer

  
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• If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
  - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
• Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
  - Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1900-1980, American actress and politician
• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
  - Elmer G. Leterman, 1897-1982, American businessman and author
• People who know how to employ themselves always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
  - Jeanne-Marie Roland de la Platière, 1754-1793, French Revolutionary
• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
  - Manly Hall, 1901-1990, Canadian writer and mystic

  
  

  
  

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• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
  

  
  

  

  - Blaise Pascal, 1623-1666, French philosopher and mathematician,

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• Integrity can be thought of in mathematical terms; Integrity and integral have the same root. They are both wholeness. It means our actions and words correspond; what we say and what we do are integrated.
  - Unknown

• He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
  - Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-born American pamphleteer, political philosopher

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  (Oil, ca. 1858, by
  Bass Otis, after George Romney, Independence National Historical
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  Image Source: National Parks Service On line Books - Signers of the Declaration
  

  Caption: Thomas Paine, author of Common
  Sense, did not emigrate to America from England until 1774, but he
  became an ardent patriot.

• If there is one thing in life I have learned, it is the basic fact that in the end, there is only one person and one thing in this world that you can control. That is, of course, yourself.
  - Golda Meir, 1896-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 1969-1975
• Truth never damages a cause that is just.
  - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869-1948, Political and spiritual leader of India

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• We ought not raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy. It is more pleasing to see smoke brighting into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
  - Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English lexicographer, essayist, poet

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  It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

       
  - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
  - Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 or 1728 - 1774, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
        - John Locke, 1632-1704, English, Oxford scholar, medical researcher and
  physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a
  revolutionary movement, and philosopher

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  Theories of property, liberalism, gender and John Locke
  
• That man is truly good who knows his own dark places.
  - Beowulf