Quotes About Integrity

Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong. Start stopping today. Don't waste time questioning how you know that what you're doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.

You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse.

What shall I do with a lying man? Let him speak so he may reveal himself.

human health is a matter of moral action, perhaps more than it is a matter of anything else

ourselves properly, we would have to respect ourselves—but we don't, because we are—not least in our own eyes—fallen creatures. If we lived in Truth; if we spoke the Truth—then we could walk with God once again, and respect ourselves, and

Bread is of little use to the man who has betrayed his soul, even if he is currently starving.

If you haven't done anything wrong, do not apologize.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character. If you have a weak character, then adversity will mow you down when it appears, as it will, inevitably. You will hide, but there will be no place left to hide. And then you will find yourself doing terrible things.

If you bend everything totally, blindly and willfully towards the attainment of a goal, and only that goal, you will never be able to discover if another goal would serve you, and the world, better. It is this that you sacrifice if you do not tell the truth.

What should you do, when you don't know what to do? Tell the truth.

An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice.

By taking responsibility, we can find a meaningful path, improve our personal lot psychologically, and make what is intolerably wrong genuinely better. Thus, we can have our cake and eat it, too.

Cuando la estructura de una institución se ha vuelto corrupta -sobre todo de acuerdo a sus propios principios- criticarla es un acto de amistad.

Možda spašavate nekoga zato što ste snažna, velikodušna, sre?ena osoba koja želi u?initi pravu stvar. Ali mogu?e je - i, možda, ?ak vjerojatnije - da samo želite usmjeriti pažnju na svoje neisrpive zalihe suosje?anja i dobre volje. (...) Ili možda zato što je lakše izgledati krjeposnim kada stojite pored nekoga posve neodgovorna. Prvo pretpostavite da ?inite najlakšu stvar, a ne onu najtežu.

Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

Dedica tus esfuerzos a hacer cosas con significado, no aquello que más te convenga.

If you pay attention to what you do and say, you can learn to feel a state of internal division and weakness when you are misbehaving and misspeaking.

Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.

But a villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place.

That is the moral of both narratives: follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.

Kada iznevjerite sami sebe, kada govorite neistine i živite laž, slabite svoj karakter. Ako imate slab karakter, nevolje ?e vas pomesti kada se pojave, a neizbježno je da se pojave. Skrivat ?ete se, ali ne?ete se više imati kamo skriti. A onda ?ete se zate?i kako radite užasne stvari.

Si dices «no» a tu jefe, a tu mujer o a tu madre cuando hay que decírselo, entonces te transformas en alguien que puede decir «no» cuando hay que decirlo. Por el contrario, si dices «sí» cuando tienes que decir «no», te transformas en alguien que solo puede decir «sí», incluso cuando manifiestamente toca decir lo contrario.

TELL THE TRUTH—OR, AT LEAST, DON'T LIE