Quotes About Integrity

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake.

The Negro knows he is right. he has not organized for conquest or to gain spoils or to enslave those who have injured him. His goal is not to capture that which belongs to someone else. He merely wants and will have what is honorably his.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.

Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

If you are unprepared to live the way God wants you to, chances are, you'll reject sound teaching and will simply gravitate toward teachers who will tell you what you want to hear.

We can only do what we can live with.

She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

I do not believe there is right or wrong, he said. there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances and living with the consequences and weaving every experiences, good and bad, into the fabric of one's life so that ultimately one can see the pattern of it all and accept the lessons life has taught.

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love?

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.