Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

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.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

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.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.