Quotes About Integrity

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

A man without conscience is but a poor creature...

And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you." -Danny Rollings

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.