Quotes About Integrity

Richard, you got to be a man today.

He wrote: A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way. Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.

We're only as sick as our secrets.

For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.