Quotes About Integrity

If she ever heard anybody picking on someone because they were funny looking or because they had strange names, she'd speak up. Even if it meant losing Peggy's friendship. She had no way of making things right with Wanda, but from now on she would never make anybody else so unhappy again.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

It's your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

No matter what you do , some people will criticize you , and if you are entirely sure that you would not be ashamed to explain your action to someone you loved and who loved you , and you are satisfied in your own mind that you are doing right , then you need not worry about criticism nor need you ever explain what you do .

no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

Then come the hard choices: What do I believe? To what extent am I ready to live up to my beliefs? How far am I ready to support them? Are there times when I lack the courage to stand up and be counted because I fear loss of prestige or popularity, of alienating my neighbors, of hurting my business or professional standing?

being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

If you step on other people's necks to get rich, or barter your personal honor, then it is others who pay for your success and you can hardly call it your own. If, however, you build something that is of benefit to other people, give them an opportunity to rise with you on your upward climb, you make a contribution.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.