John Steinbeck Quotes

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

Underlying all the explanations, intellectual constructions and self-delusions, we can still know a good man when we see one.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

He was as great as a man can be without morality

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Good morals lead to good laws.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.