Quotes About Integrity

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours

you can only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To

Tampoco en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

Porque para quien aún no lo sepa, que tome nota y lo viva en su propia carne: ¡una conciencia tranquila te hace sentir fuerte!

Yo, por mi parte, seguiré con mi actitud fría y silenciosa, y tampoco en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

Thursday, 6 July, 1944 ... Quite honestly, I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to! This reply rather discouraged me. Easy? Does that mean that a lazy, deceitful life is an easy life? Oh no, that can't be true, it mustn't be true, people can so easily be tempted by slackness...and money.

I don't want followers, but friends, admirers who fall not for a flattering smile but for what one does and for one's character.

Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!

We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

it speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you're doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, Here's who I am, and that is where most improvement has to begin.

He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands.

We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

You don't even have to know how or in what way, but if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

It may strike you as a small miracle that you have someone in your life, whose taste you admire, who will tell you the truth and help you stay on the straight and narrow, or find your way back to it if you are lost.