Quotes About Integrity

How we are talking to each other is as corrupt and corrupting as what anyone is saying

Vivimos en un mundo donde se hacen juicios apresurados y con gran facilidad. Se dicen e imprimen mentiras acerca de las personas a través de una prensa irresponsable; cualquiera puede decir lo que quiera en su sitio Web y parecer digno de crédito.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.

The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization... Why we do things will not change, but how we will do them will... If the Library is to fulfill its purpose in the future, librarians must commit to a culture of continuous operational change, accept risk and uncertainty as key properties of the profession, and uphold service to the user as our most valuable directive.

morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

The Lord gave you a mind so that you can make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

I think most people feel a difference between their real lives and the lives they have in the world. But they ignore their souls, or hide them, so they can keep things together, keep an ordinary life together. You don't do that. In your own way, you're kind of—pure.

There are many ways to live a good life

I am saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

At the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

It seems these days as if the right to bear arms is considered by some a suitable remedy for the tendency of others to act on their freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and especially of religion in ways and degrees these arms-bearing folk find irksome. Reverence for the sacred integrity of every pilgrim's progress through earthly life seems to be eroding.

You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn't even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying, matters to those around you. So there is good you can do and always do again. You do not have to believe you are good in order to act well in any specific case. You never lose that option.

I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about what is meaningful to you and you have to make a good-faith effort to speak from the integrity of your own deep experience.... People don't think about assessing what is the deepest narrative for them. I think that that's about 99 percent of the subject of literature.... Write from it.

She had repaid his kindness with kindness. As she would not have done if she had known who he was. What he was. When defects of character are your character, you become a what. He had noticed this. No one ever says, A liar is who you are, or Who you are is a thief. He was a what, absolutely.

There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children.

There was no more the stoop of her high

Marilynne Robinson

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...