Quotes About Integrity

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Being clear and straightforward about who we are, what we want from others, and our intentions is the cornerstone of integrity.

Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?

It's not who you're fighting against that matters. It's what you're fighting for.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

1) Be the strongest of the strong. 2) Be the bravest of the brave. 3) Help the helpless. 4) Always tell the truth. 5) Be loyal. 6) Never give up. 7) Kill all monsters.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

there are few situations which reveal a man's character and personality so strongly as the occupancy of a witness-box.

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

According to "Clement," when the Christians talked about loving your enemies, their neighbors had been interested. But when they found that the Christians didn't do what they said, they dismissed Christianity as "a myth and a delusion." From Clement's perspective, Christians had to embody the message if the churches were to grow.