Quotes About Integrity

The best works of great men all come from the time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little pay. This is confirmed by the Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse).

Better alone than amongst traitors.

The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.

Uma hipótese leva, na cabeça em que se estabeleceu ou mesmo na cabeça em que nasceu, uma vida comparável à de um organismo, já que assimila do mundo exterior apenas o que lhe é proveitoso e homogêneo. Quanto ao que é heterogêneo e prejudicial, ou ela não deixa que chegue perto, ou então, quando se trata de algo que é inevitável assimilar, expele-o novamente, intacto.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Decir la verdad y después prenderse fuego. Esa es la tarea del filósofo.

Rien n'est beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable'' ''DoÄŸrudan baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey güzel deÄŸildir; sadece doÄŸru sevilmeye deÄŸerdir.

A man shows who he is by the way that he dies.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.

Die Ehre ist nicht die Meinung von besonderen, diesem Subjekt allein zukommenden Eigenschaften, sondern nur von den der Regel nach vorauszusetzenden, als welche auch ihm nicht abgehen sollen. Sie besagt daher nur, daß dies Subjekt keine Ausnahme mache, während der Ruhm besagt, daß es eine mache. Ruhm muß daher erst erworben werden, die Ehre hingegen braucht bloß nicht verloren zu gehen.

Ehrwürdig ist die Wahrheit; nicht was ihr entgegensteht.

Spanish proverb: honor and money are not to be found in the same purse.

live according to scripture" (1 Cor. 4:6).

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

Since his idea of professional integrity requires him to live by his principles, in order to remain a person of integrity, he has changed his principles, and now believes in us almost more than we believe in ourselves.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Do what is right, and do it now.

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do. (...) But our fight is not always to do more. It is to do right by our patients, even though what is right is not always clear.

But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon—and sometimes it's only your pride that comes through.