Quotes About Integrity

He profits most who serves best.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living then, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redefined tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

Like many high-minded people, Wilson, when faced with opposition that he considered evil but which refused to yield to his arguments, felt no compunction about simply crossing his arms and refusing to play the game.

The job of ethics, Aristotle asserts, "is not that we may know what virtue is, but that we may become virtuous," especially in our daily dealings with others.

a man's a man for a' that." To the Scot, appearance and outward form mean little. Instead, it is the quality of one's inner self

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. —Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513

Socrates had just smiled and shook his head. To break the law, he told Crito, even a law that he knew was unjust, would be wrong. As he told his disciples many times, "one must not do wrong even when one is wronged."3 By doing wrong, a man did injury to his soul. Doing right, by contrast, makes his soul healthy and strong. A life of virtue is a life without compromise, Socrates believed, in which the goal is perfection according to an eternal standard.

How does he learn to take that crucial step? Does he learn it the hard way, that if he is going to get along he has to go along, as Pufendorf suggested? Or is there a simpler, more uplifting way, by which we learn that virtue can be its own reward?

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

El dolor que experimentamos cuando no nos sentimos amados es tan real, como el dolor corporal. Cuando las necesidades emocionales permanecen insatisfechas se convierten en sensaciones reales de un profundo malestar corporal, ansiedad, depresión, dolor de cabeza, de estómago, en fin, de un temor fuera de foco. La insatisfacción de las necesidades es una amenaza a la integridad del sistema; se transforma en dolor porque éste nos alerta de las amenazas que nos produce esa privación.

Hoe kan iemand ooit bewijzen dat hij je vertrouwen waard is, als je het hem niet eerst van harte schenkt.

Honor is decency without vanity.

I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.