Quotes About Integrity

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being ruled, whether by sovereigns or by society, this does not mean that he refuses to serve in any way. In general, he serves no worse than anyone else, and sometimes even better, if he likes the game. He only holds back from the pledge, the sacrifice, the ultimate devotion. These are issues of metaphysical integrity....

Lo que no perdono en mi época no es lo de ser cobarde, sino tener que construir cada día la coartada de la propia cobardía difamando a los héroes

El poder auténtico se reconoce en la protección que dispensa.

Ariosto's: 'A great heart feels no dread of approaching death, whenever it may come, so long as it be honourable.

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Nichts belastet den politisch Handelnden schuldvoller als Verschweigen, er muß die Wahrheit sagen, sei sie noch so drückend, nur die Wahrheit steigert die Kraft, den Willen, die Vernunft.

Ti amo per amore e per disgusto di uomini, ti amo perché sei integro anche se sei avanzo di altra vita, ti amo perché il pezzo che resta vale l'intero e ti amo per esclusione degli altri pezzi spersi.

If, to win, we have to set up the gallows in the public square, I would prefer to lose.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.

If you cannot—in the long run—tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

Be faithful to what you see, Washington, and not to what you are supposed to see.

For a minister's daughter," he said, "you hit hard ... and quite often, below the belt too.

If you are defamed, let time vindicate you — silence is a thousand times better than explanation. Explanations do not explain. Let your life be its own excuse for being — cease all explanations and all apologies and just live your own life. By minding your own business you give others an opportunity to mind theirs; and depend upon it, the great souls will appreciate you for this very thing.' In

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

How dare you?" I said, all ice. "You coward, how dare you do this? If you wanted to reclaim your honor, you should have come to me alone, like a man." The young guard bit his lips, his thickly blemished face going red, but his helpers roared with laughter. "Hey, Telys, you said this pup was a stranger, but it sounds like he knows you well enough!" one of them exclaimed.

He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed

But what really counts isn't what people say to your face. It's what they say behind your back.