Quotes About Integrity

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Real ballers don't golf.

It's best to keep acting real.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Howie Mandel is the real deal.

There comes a time when you have to put forth the action and actually see whether you're really just talking to promote yourself, just to sell yourself, or to build your confidence or build confidence around you... or are you the real deal?

We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal.

Marloes Coenen is the real deal.

Paul was the real deal. Both in the movie business and real life.