Quotes About Integrity

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

Aldus Manutius denounced the Lyonnais printers and listed the many errors in their books, but the Lyonnais, rather than apologizing or denying the theft, simply used his denunciations to make corrections.

integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses.

over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day.

When we cease to surface our most sensitive skin simply to avoid conflict with others, we remove ourselves from all that is true. When we maintain ways we've already discarded just to placate the ignorance of those we love, we lose our access to what is eternal.

Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.

We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.

The only thing better than an acknowledgement is action.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.

I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend

Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

the beauty of the climate-change circus is that you never need to ask "Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?" Mann peer-reviewed Jones, and Jones peer-reviewed Mann, and anyone who questioned their views got exiled to the unwarmed wastes of Siberia.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?