Quotes About Integrity

Remember, life is what we make of it. Stay away from hog (the swine), the stinking tobacco weed, the hot fiery alcohol, wine, beer, drugs, foolishness, ignorance, madness, drunkenness, gambling, murdering, robbery, deceitfulness, lying, mockery and seeking to take advantage of your brother and your sister, and believe in the presence of God

You can never trust hypocrites. They are liars. They are worse than disbelievers, because a disbeliever has not lied, saying that he believed and then turned back. This makes hypocrites the most hated of all people.

The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.

Be honorable, wherever you are, Bart. Do the right thing instead of the easy thing.

Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.

You need to choose bravery over shame," Leanne says. "Humility over pride.

compassion, thoughtful opinions. He admits when he's wrong; he admits when he doesn't know. This is why their friendship has lasted while so many others have fallen away.

Telling the truth when you've done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.

Did two good people do something they knew was wrong because there was some kind of magical chemistry involved? Or was it plain old human fallibility, weakness in the face of temptation?

isn't religious but she does have an immutable sense of right and wrong and

What is the most important lesson of all? Perseverance? Honesty? Forgiveness? Love?

The Vineyard is a great place to live… until you screw up.

You can be related to someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person. You can love someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person. You can even be someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person

Mallory uses a measured, concerned-mom voice rather than a snake-oil-salesman voice.

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

What a person does isn't the same as who a person is.

it was all very well being decent when things were smooth; but we often had rough times given us to show what we were. [. . .] Perhaps we are to have it now. If we are, it's up to us to show how we can deal with it. And we shan't do that by wailing over it.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities … because it is the quality which guarantees all others," Churchill said.

Giving a damn and doing what is right are rewards in themselves.

It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

Rollan frowned. "Conor, is this what I sounded like that day Olvan asked us to become Greencloaks? If so, I give you permission to punch me. Once. In the shoulder.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.