Quotes About Integrity

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Rarely use [sex] but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

He that pays for work before it's done has but a pennyworth for two pence.

You may be more happy than princes if you will be more virtuous.

Thou shalt not receive any gift; for a gift bindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Exod. xxiii. 8.)

Si no quieres perderte en el olvido tan pronto como estés muerto, escribe cosas dignas de leerse, o haz cosas dignas de escribirse.

Conduct is more convincing than language,

I have always set a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good, than on any other kind of Reputation

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

?yi olanlara iyiyim. ?yi olmayanlara iyiyim. Ve sonunda hep iyilik vard?r. Samimi olana samimiyim, samimi olmayana samimiyim. Ve sonunda hep samimiyet vard?r.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Or are you exclusively "artful" because it's easier to excuse your sloppiness as purposeful?

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

A man's duty is to keep his end up.

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

The moral of the story here is that if you're ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no turning back. You just have to take it as it comes or you will remain a virgin for life.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.