Quotes About Integrity

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

LAURA. There are some circumstances in a family which through honor and conscience one is forced to conceal from the whole world—— DOCTOR.

You die how you live.

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you

Don't you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not, you best be making sure that they do right by you.

Aunt Ester: He didn't care if anybody else knew if he did or not. He knew. He didn't do it for the people standing around watching. He did it for himself. He say I'd rather die in truth than to live a lie. That way he can say that his life is worth more than a bucket of nails. What is your life worth, Mr. Citizen? That what you got to find out. You got to find a way to live in truth. If you live right you die right.

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Never, ever try to impress somebody. Be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to fart around.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth: you get splinters later on.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

I hate cheating. I won't put up with it. I don't do it myself.

when a couple of members of the Harvard faculty announced all the evidence, Jefferson said, "I would rather believe that two Yankee professors have lied than believe that stones fall from the sky.…" He was a great man. But here he is wrong.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.