Quotes About Integrity

he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.

We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider—for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal.

Every political party needs the righteous anger of the loyal opposition to keep it honest

He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

What she helped me learn is that even compassion has boundaries. It is not for those who get up each day and choose a path of discord. This includes me. I have learned that I do not deserve compassion either if I do the same.

As His Holiness the Dalai Lama said to me once, "A tiger does not apologize.

Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

choosing to trust, appreciate, admire, believe in, and honor him.

A man without enemies is a man without character.

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar.

"There is a greater prison than Kuje; it is the conscience of men. A President who was sponsored with stolen money by a thief, is in a greater prison with the thief. And it shall manifest soon". - Sen Shehu Sanni (APC Kaduna State).

Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.

You need tension in order to create something—the sand in the pearl. She said my questioning and doubts were the sand. She said they were good and forced me to live with integrity, to interrogate what was important to me, and so to live the meaning of my life, rather than resort to convention.

But if my fate is truly my fate, then trying to escape it by doing whatever I can to make my life resemble some more beautiful thing will only lead me more quickly to the place I most fear. If there can be no escape from who I am, then I ought to reach my end honestly, able to tell myself, at least, that I have lived it with all of my being, making choices and deciding, and walking the whole way.

and how faithful; how faithful a book was, and how strong, a place you could be safe, apart from the world, held inside a world that would never grow weak, and which could pass through wars, massacres and floods-could pass through all of human history, and the integrity of its soul would stay strong.

Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there are those who cannot put them on. They are the ones who live their lives not just as people but as examples of people. They are destined to expose every part of themselves, so the rest of us can know what it means to be a human.

Ask only whether you are living your values, not whether the boxes are ticked.

Now we find ourselves in the knowledge of what is cheating. It is cheating to treat oneself as an object, or as an image to tend to, or as an icon.

If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.

Your good work wasn't wasted, because good work never is" -H.W. Marsworth

Be original. Be true. Be you.