Quotes About Integrity

What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Don't silent your heart. Make a date and show up.

We can protect life, practice generosity, behave responsibly, and consume mindfully.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.

I spent a great deal of time trying to be good, but was good the same as whole?

The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.

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We should confess our sins to God, Torilla, but never, if it would hurt them, to other people. . . . If anyone must bear the consequences of a wrong action, it should be the person who had done it.

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it or you don't.

many who claimed to want the truth actually wanted anything but.