Quotes About Integrity

I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.

Live by truth or suffer. It's that simple.

Close the gap between what is and what you want it to be, between what is presenting itself and what you want to present itself. This gap of judgment is the separation you feel. You need to totally choose what is and lean into it with your whole being.

Part of being awake is being willing to be crucified. If we think that to be awake means the whole world will agree with us, then we are in a total delusion.

Moreover, one should so respect a friend's presence that he dare not perform anything shameful or speak any unbecoming word, since any fault so reflects on a friend that the friend not only blushes and grieves inwardly but also reproaches himself with what he sees or hears, as if he had committed the sin himself.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

For simple are the words of truth.

There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

The words of truth are simple.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Little liberties are great offenses.