Quotes about Trustworthiness

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting. I wonder how many people get tempted by the gains they can make by playing a role, only to pay for those temptations in public isolation.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.