integrity Quotes

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Love can do much, but duty more.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.