Quotes About Integrity

rare courage, and a force of character

No hay nadie en el mundo que tenga suficiente dinero para comprar tu vida, tu honradez, tu hogar, tus amigos! Tu sueño por la noche... —No

She would not want anyone she cared for to love a false reflection of her. After all, could there be a greater loneliness than that?

I would doubt that virtue, to her, means abstinence. It is far more likely to mean courage, compassion, and the integrity to be brutally honest, first with yourself and then with others, and never to run away just because you are exhausted or afraid.

Es terrible traicionar a tu país. Me cuesta imaginar algo peor, salvo quizá traicionarte a ti mismo. El

What you see, and allow without a fight, is what you become yourself. What is the moral difference between the man who burns his neighbor to death, and the man who stands by and watches him do it?

She knows what matters and what doesn't,' she answered, choosing her words carefully. 'She remembers what she receives, but never what she gives. She doesn't hold grudges, and if she thinks something is funny she will laugh, whether it is the done thing or not. She loves the opera, and gorgeous clothes. She is honest when it is fashionable not to be, but she is never unnecessarily unkind. And she will fight to the death for a cause she believes in.

The more flawed a man was, the shoddier it was to take advantage of his inadequacies to destroy him.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.

We seek to perfect what we are, not to constantly alter it. We seek to find something that is a true expression of our soul with which to shape what makes up our form. But there's no need for you to trouble yourself over these things.

We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

my motto, what it's always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won't be bad at being bad. I

But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?

LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.

because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

I see that you are capable of secrecy but quite incapable of a lie.

He wanted the truth and knew he could not get it by hostile means.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on." "You mean strive to be perfect," he said.