Quotes About Integrity

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

I was riding with her on Marine One when she read that Donald Trump had divorced his first wife to marry a much younger woman. I learned she didn't have much patience with men who sought trophy wives when she said: That man will never set foot again in the White House as long as I have anything to do with it.

An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don't.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." — Gospel of Thomas

Honor is honor, whether one bargains with the honorable or the dishonorable.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same. There's only one question worth asking now: How do we aim to live with it?

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

He said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him. Am I dreaming this? Willa asked. No. No. He said that. It couldn't have been more than a week ago. Apparently he was right. Iano, nobody gets away with murder. You can't behave like a madman when you're running for public office. That kind of trash talk is supposed to end careers.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa's every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as "tact" would get shot down with "Mom, that's lying!" And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, "Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don't really like it.