John Ruskin Quotes

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

Fight for what is true. What is true is enough.

I shall be true to what I believe.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.