Quotes About Integrity

The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. Lou Holtz

Without an understanding of trial by evidence, trial by innuendo might easily triumph.

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.

what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."26

Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't.

Whatever else could be said of Eunice Park, she was perfectly true.

Una vita dedita alla semplicità, al giusto coraggio, al buon umore, alla gratitudine, al lavoro, al gioco senza riserve e tanto cammino ci portano vicino al mondo effettivamente esistente e alla sua interezza.

To speak well is part of living well.

He who buries a treasure buries himself with it. A secret is a grave, and it is not for nothing that a man who can be trusted with a secret boasts that he is like the grave

Avouer qu'on s'était trompé, c'est rendre le plus éclatant hommage à la perspicacité de son esprit.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

His manner, his words - everything about him told me to trust him.

A breach of integrity stops the flow of energy, just as a pebble jammed in a garden hose stops the flow of water.

Unlike so many "reporters" today, they knew the difference between objective reporting of news and hyping things up to entertain the audience—and bump up their ratings.)

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide. Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because you chose them. You are the Fire Lord. What you chose, by definition, is right.

For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

Someone who holds in confidence only those secrets he has been told not to reveal can never be trusted.

A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares more for his honor than for his life. If his honor requires him to fight, he fights. He doesn't count his foes or measure their strength, because those things don't matter. They don't affect his decision.

You said you loved truth. Now I see why — it is truth that binds men.

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.