Quotes About Integrity

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.

Walking away from you with a broken heart is easier to handle than selling my soul to make love with you. I'm sorry, Adrian. I might be lonely, and naive, and all the things you think about me. But I'm also true to myself, and I won't denigrate my feelings for you. They're much too precious in a world that offers so little love.

Think what you want about me Billie. You're the only part of my life that hasn't been a lie.

and Tommy. Not to my teachers. Not to Mom. And certainly not to Dad. My biggest

Corruption is never compulsory.

Honesty is better than any easy comfort.

He remembered his own code that he had made up when he was about twelve, a code of three points only: 'Never betray a friend. Never betray beauty. Never betray the sword.' By that last he had meant being brave when he was afraid.

Never put a boy in front of your friendship

I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Liars come in all shapes and sizes, young lady. Sometimes folks think they are telling a lie to make things better. But then they are telling two lies. One to another person and one to themselves" -Mr. Doyle

Love is a gift. Not a bribe.

You only find yourself bending over backwards when the bar is too low.

Deny everything. Admit nothing. Demand proof

To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.