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Exlpore more Integrity quotes
"It is in opposing the world's lies that we impose truth in our hearts."
"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."
"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
"When you betray your own heart, you suffer for life. Always be true to your heart!"
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."
"A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world."
"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature."
"There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness."
"Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside."
"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
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