Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

The just man walks in his integrity

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I have never stolen. I am not a thief.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.