Quotes About Integrity

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper - watered down - variety.

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful? Someone kind or cruel? Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself.

Who fills an office must learn to bear reproach and blame.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

If she wanted something a certain way, and I was against it just to be bossy – then that would be controlling. If I had insisted on something that showed I cared only about myself – that would be controlling. But when you set a goal that shows you care about your loved ones and you stick to it even when people are against you, that's being strong.

For me, trust is the first casualty of secrecy… integrity is probably the next.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

You're not really afraid you'll hurt him. You're afraid because you believe it was wrong even to think it. But having a thought, even an awful one, is different from acting on it. All the difference in the world.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

A little honest swearin" wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

A man does what he feels is right, no matter what it costs him.

Andy said, "Yonder goes a man who hates the sin, but he's willin' enough to take its wages." Shanty replied, "I'm glad I won't be wearin' his shoes when he walks up to the Golden Gates." "He's wearin' better shoes than me and you." "I'd rather be barefooted.

La verdad es que el Willy y yo estuvimos agarrando cura, que si prometíamos ser fieles al presidente, gritaba aquel bato, Simón, respondíamos nosotros, pero si nos pasa a sus hijas.

Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.

But when you begin with bullshit the conclusion you reach is still bullshit.

I have always thought, Mr. Bitts, that a hard man is good to find.

He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

Cattle die, kindred die, every man is mortal: but the good name never dies of one who has done well.