Quotes About Integrity

Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries, fairness, honesty and spirituality.

I don't know who Rick Barnes thinks I am, but I'm not a dude that likes to just mess around about anything.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially right after I left Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, there was a lot of drama going on in my life, so the book companies came at me thirsty for blood and gossip. And I turned down all the deals.

I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

When the rule of law is being perverted to the rule of the 'good intentions' of unelected judges, it is time for serious study of Thomas Paine and Sam Adams as much as Washington and Madison.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

Wasim Akram is a splendid human being and a thorough gentleman.