Quotes About Integrity

Every son eventually learns his daddy has feet of clay. You just happen to have a father of singular rectitude, so it took until you were forty-five. That doesn't make it any less painful.

Catfish actually liked white folks, especially the working people. He thought they'd been manipulated by the moneed class to resent blacks, but he reprected their honesty. Said he always knew where he stood with white Southerners, that they always lived up to their word. Uncle Catfish never trusted Yankees.

Right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.

When people got into the habit of lying, they came to depend on it as a means of sliding easily through life.

And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a comin'. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Billy Graham once said, "We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.

I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do, not what they might get.

Doing the right thing feels like shit.

At the end of the day, trust is everything.

It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.

It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.

Ben Franklin once said three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

This is the foundation of all sin: the lie that God is untrustworthy, the lie that God is not altogether loving and that he doesn't have our best interests in mind.

Moral high ground is a wonderful place to site your artillery. —NAPOLÉON

It's a hard man who's only just, and a sad man who's only wise.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie.

Remember,' Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasise his words. 'Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong--that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.