Quotes About Integrity

don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell.

I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, the Earps were incorruptible, intrepid lawmen bravely marching off to protect the city from gun-toting outlaws. The next morning, they were cold-blooded killers who'd murdered three men on a public street because of some kind of personal feud between Doc Holliday and Ike Clanton.

Spoke again,and this time he understood, Someone's father once her that it was better to die than to live wrongly. I say: better to live rightly

What does a man have to do to be taken at his word in this town? Do I have to shoot someone? Because I am making a list!

I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That's the way to live comfortably And die honorably.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him, and so loses respect for himself. And having no respect, he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.

Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

To my mind, a small bit of catshit equals a catshit sandwich, unless I know where the catshit is and can eat around it.

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.

And the most important thing he told me was that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.

Just because I evolved, doesn't mean I am spineless. Just because I am malleable, doesn't mean I am undeserving

You are more than who you fuck

If only one man is left standing, a bribe cannot bite.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Not knaves, fools.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?