Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

Honesty will never break you.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

I never did anything dishonest.

I am an honest, straight guy.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

Only men of character are trusted.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

No matter what you do, be honest. That sticks out in Washington.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /