John Woolman Quotes

Integrity gains strength by use.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

The just man walks in his integrity

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.