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Quotes About Integrity

Yo sólo juego a ser inconstante —dije por fin—. Por dentro soy una roca. Siempre leal, siempre firme. Pero un poco de juego es la sal de la vida y mantiene a raya a mis enemigos.
~ Margaret George
Being a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser.
~ Margaret Heffernan
A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.
~ Margaret Kennedy
MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another. An arm has no integrity if it is amputated. It is nothing unless it is part of a body, with a heart to pump the blood through it and a brain to guide it. You have no more integrity than a severed arm might have.
~ Margaret Kennedy
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
~ Margaret Mitchell
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
~ Margaret Mitchell
She could never respect a man who let her run over him...
~ Margaret Mitchell
Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness, he enumerated silkily. You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.
~ Margaret Mitchell
What a white livered, cowardly little bitch you are.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Don't spoil it," he said quietly.
~ Margaret Mitchell
But she felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did. Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'oh, how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Do you really mean they like it? You wouldn't fox an old friend, would you?' – in response to Lois Cole's telegram announcing that Macmillan liked the book that would become known as Gone With the Wind.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
~ Alan Kay
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
~ Aldous Huxley
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
~ Bill Joy
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.
~ Avi Rubin
Be a worthy company and clients will come.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Ok.. So are you goin'a let him bluetube your tweeter?
~ Bella Bancroft
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
~ Zig Ziglar
Unthankfulness is theft.
~ Martin Luther