Quotes About Integrity

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly and I'm OK with that. But I'm not OK when it is fake.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!

I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.