Quotes About Integrity

Let your life speak.

Morality is about a heart that is right before God.

There's a difference between focusing on being right and focusing on being a follower of Jesus.

Many in our day climb under the moral shade of Matthew 7:1 to take the supposed high road in saying, "I'm not the judge." Those who take this supposed high road may be missing the whole point of Jesus' words: sin is sin, and one cannot follow Jesus and turn a blind eye to sin. What Jesus is calling us to here is not the absence of moral discernment.

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19–24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

The end of the Sermon makes it clear that Jesus expects his followers to take up his words and live them out regardless of the cost. I know of no alternative. Take them or leave them, is what I say to myself.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

I]t isn't the considered judgments of hindsight, but actions actually taken that show the true character of a person.

Virtue theory, which is also called aretaic ethics (from the Greek term arete, "virtue"), holds that morality is more than simply doing the right thing. The foundational moral claims made by the virtue theorist concern the moral agent (the person doing the action), not the act that the agent performs.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all?

When people are allowed to fail or make mistakes without taking responsibility for them, politics are inevitable. Without accountability for people's commitments, few will trust others.

It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.

Lame visions have no integrity: they don't offer a plan, and they don't express an opinion.

you can look inside yourself and find strength to make choices you believe in, even if others do not agree with those choices.

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's being you.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

People in glass houses shouldn't get stoned

Wiccans don't perform destructive, manipulative, or exploitive magic.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." —THE SHOOTIST

I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand--I made them certain promises I intend to keep.