Quotes About Integrity

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...

don't find people who will be a bully in love find people that will love you forever quote that i made up

Ook in een tijd van vrede betaal je een prijs om trouw te blijven aan jezelf, om oprecht te leven. Dit heb ik geleerd: hoeveel het ook kost, het is de prijs waard. Je kunt geen oppervlakkig of zinloos leven leiden. Betaal de prijs en wees er trots op dat je dat hebt gedaan, dat is mijn idee.

Biblical stewardship produces a spiritual fragrance in the people who live it.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive.

I'd much rather lose a campaign than lose a war.

I don't mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I've had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

And although it hurts when people think less well of us than we deserve, our integrity, our self-respect, and our happiness do not ultimately depend upon the opinion of others. They depend upon our own conscience. We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.

You can fail to tell the truth. But the truth cannot be a failure even if it's ignored or rejected. The report told the truth.

The cruelty of our enemies doesn't absolve us of this duty. This was never about them. It was about us.

At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and abroad, are the test of every American generation. Will we act in this world with respect for our founding conviction that all people have equal dignity in the eyes of God and should be accorded the same respect by the laws and governments of men? That is the most important question history ever asks of us.

Country First

You don't get to choose the value of what you do in others' eyes, so you have to take stock in knowing that doing the right thing is enough, no matter who notices.

People tend to forget the genuinely lousy level of officiating that was prevalent in professional tennis when I came along. That's why, with my parents' words echoing in my ears—tell the truth; be honest at any cost—I felt I was (don't laugh) on a kind of quest to get things to improve.

A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him ashamed to show his face in the town. It was like the tradition of the Gaelic poets, who were paid money to write in derision about people.

Vending. Not selling.

If you cannot travel honorably, and without begging, I should advise you to stay at home.