Quotes About Integrity

And I don't believe any maiden of good family and with an honorable and Christian upbringing would part so easily with her honor, or her life. No, this is the kind of thing people write ballads about. I think when a man or a maiden is tempted to do something like that, they make up a ballad about it, which helps them, but they refrain from actually doing it.

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

God grant,' he said, 'that he may learn to understand in time that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.' 

Mamaw says this is the problem with a lot of politicians. "They want to do right, but they're too scared to," she says.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat-shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

To utter a word and meaning nothing by it is unworthy of a philosopher. Berkeley

The path you choose must be your own. And once that path has been embarked on, you must never falter, never deviate. I faltered... and deviated! And now I must get back on track... if I still can.

I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may?

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

I am a liar!

A Navajo message could never be faked and could always be trusted.

The only people who are in a position to point out my errors are also those who are not at liberty to reveal them.

Stát, který v??í, že není správné ?íst cizí dopisy, ?asem za?ne v??it i tomu, že jeho korespondenci také nikdo ne?te...

And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

Arthur said: "A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.

La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is simulation of strength.

said. 'To make someone lose face is unforgivable.' The

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.