Quotes About Integrity

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Adah inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

and do not for the love of the Lord say you're laying down if you mean lying down.

As to the career of avoiding making enemies. You can't dig any burrow deep enough. Might as well stand and look them in the eye.

Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow.

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.

I took Mom's word on that because you hear of such things, folks so godly as to pass around snakes, also passing around black eyes. If this is a new one on you, maybe you also think a dry county is a place where there's no liquor to be found.

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

Can one who hates right govern?" Job 34:13

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

I read what Hallie said about not wanting to save the world, that you didn't choose your road for the reward at the end, but for the way it felt as you went along.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what you feel, even when it may be diametrically opposed to everyone eles's opinion. You may be called the Devil Incarnate. You may feel like cow pies are being thrown at you. Sometimes that is part of being true to yourself.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

In Blanche's experience, the more a person believed love was a part of what they got from their employer, the more likely it was that the person was being asked to do things that only love could justify.

Yer nasty bugger!' she cried passionately. 'It was only an accident. The lass didn't do it on purpose.' She regarded Murgatroyd through blazing eyes. 'If I ever sees yer strike that lass again, yer life won't be worth living. I promise yer that. I won't go ter the Squire. Indeed I won't! I'll tell her

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

George Burns line? 'Sincerity—if you can fake that, you've got it made.

but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words.

If he were a philosopher king or a benevolent dictator, the only jobs he thought he might enjoy more than his current occupation, he'd have a rule that you could only authorize a war if you were actually going to go off and personally fight it. That'd get the politicians singing "Kumbaya" right quick.

I thought of an expression my father had once told me: Be good to people on your way up. You may meet them again on your way down.

no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.

Barry Eisler

You're just like the politicians, Alex. You want something done but you won't let people do it right. You think you can pick up a turd from the clean end? It doesn't work that way.