Quotes About Integrity

Don't make promises you can't keep

Life may not be fair, but that doesn't give you any excuse not to be.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing.

The man who enlists into the service for a consideration, and deserts the moment he receives his money but to repeat the play, is bad enough; but the men who manipulate the grand machine and who simply make the bounty-jumper their agent in an outrageous fraud are far worse. They are beneath the worms that crawl in the dark hidden places of earth.

Once you've postponed doing what's right, you become a big part of what's wrong.

Something I've learned: once you postpone doing what's right, you become a big part of what's wrong.

By the love I bear you, do not fear to speak to me of them." I drew myself to my full height. "I would always rather have to do with spiky truth than with comfortable lies. Always." I held out my right hand to him and he smiled and took it in his. "I give you my word, Lanen Kaelar," he said, the beauty of that deep warm voice threatening to break down my hard-won self-control. "Always the spiky truth.

What about other doctors at the time? Didn't they become suspicious? Even today, we have an unwritten professional code where doctors don't speak out against other physicians.

As you enter positions of trust and power," Toni Morrison wrote, "dream a little before you think.

If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it." Caroline to Peggy

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

Paks, if you've got a fault it's that you're too willing to be ruled. I know what you'll say—you'll say that's how a good soldier is.

Most people have opinions about how others should behave ... I just have high standards for who I intend to be no matter how they're behaving!

I only have one tip on how to get respect. Rather than speaking your mind, speak from the heart.

Don't those girls know that beneath this goofy exterior is someone honost and generally awesome in every way? I'm a winner dammit

No more creepy online alter egos in the name of love.

Sometimes honestly really is the best policy.

I never went for the talkers.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

A Republican, then?" Jack asked, after a moment. "Oh, for God's sake." Olive stopped walking, looked at him through her sunglasses. "I didn't say moron. You mean because we have a cowboy for a president? Or before that an actor who played a cowboy? Let me tell you, that idiot ex-cocaine-addict was never a cowboy. He can wear all the cowboy hats he wants. He's a spoiled brat to the manor born. And he makes me puke.

Somehow, Suzanne had remained uncorrupted; her guilelessness in talking to him was a gift of no small proportion.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.