Quotes About Integrity

Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.

I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. —ÉMILE ZOLA

afraid of Slander Sheet. A lie this outrageous, you take it seriously.

Okay, okay," I said. I should have known better than to talk comic books with Gabe. "What I'm trying to tell you is, the right thing isn't always the easy thing." "Do I get a cookie with that fortune?" "You might want to watch the way you talk to your elders," I said sternly. "Yeah, right," he said, and he smiled, and I smiled, too.

One of our housekeepers called him Eddie Haskell. We'd never seen that old TV show Leave It to Beaver, but years later when I saw a couple of reruns on late-night TV, I realized that our housekeeper really hadn't liked Roger. Eddie Haskell was an unctuous, conniving brown-noser. He was the two-faced character who'd politely compliment Mrs. Cleaver on her lovely dress while instigating some evil prank that would inevitably get her son, the Beaver, in trouble.

I'm pretty insistent about taking blame when it's deserved; I'm less concerned about claiming credit." DeWitt

probity of your actions should anyone try to put you in a compromising position.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

The truth is always stronger than the lie.

Nadejdzie dzie?, gdy k?amstwa zawal? si? pod w?asnym ci??arem, a prawda ponownie zatriumfuje (Eines Tages werden die Lügen unter ihrer eigenen Last zusammenbrechen, und die Wahrheit wird wieder triumphieren)

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.

If we try to practice meditation without the foundation of goodwill to ourselves and others, it is like trying to row across a river without first untying the boat; our efforts, no matter how strenuous, will not bear fruit. We need to practice and refine our ability to live honestly and with integrity.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

People with limp handshakes are takers.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Justice is the truth in action.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Há pessoas que, da moral, só têm um pedaço. É um tecido de que nunca farão um fato.

Mistakes may be made, he said, "but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle." The

It was understandable, then, that the worth of a person was not measured in the things he or she owned, but in the deeds done on behalf of others.