Quotes About Integrity

thinking about A. J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle. One rainy night, a reporter asked him, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" "Oh," Muste replied, "I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.

If anyone is so good that he or she should be spared, you can safely assume that person is in the line of fire. Fair is where the pony rides are.

Booker T. Washington said, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

Rilke wrote: "I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind

Whales might not lie, but like anybody else, Sean suspected they probably wanted to put the best spin they could on an error in judgment when called to account for their actions.

One renegade can discredit a hundred honest injuns.

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

You deliberately don't ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.

What a waste of the essence of a man that he should never give enough of himself to any cause, that he should always hear that passive, cowardly voice uppermost which counts the cost and puts caution first. One would grow old and die with the power of one's soul untasted.

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

The truth deals only one wound, but suspicions a thousand.

Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

there are none as virtuous as those who have never been asked.

That without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference," he replied. "The rest is detail. Do whatever seems beautiful or of comfort to you.

Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?

She despised cowardice, and yet here she was on the brink of it herself.

She could understand being so in love it robbed you of your balance, your judgment of good and evil, but she could not make the leap to acting out the passion or the violence as Elissa had. There was nothing worth winning at the cost of your own being, the soul, the integrity that was the core of who you were. The act of doing such a thing made it impossible for you to hold the good, even if you could grasp it for an instant.

This time it was Daniel who interrupted. "What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.