Quotes About Integrity

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

Could she live with herself, cowering, while the world burned.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.

If you want to spot a liar, just remember that concealing the truth is like swallowing a slow-acting poison. It might take a while, but it will get them in the end. —VICTOR FLEMMING I

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake".

Why do you trust that boy?" I would overhear them asking. His answer was always the same. "Three reasons," he would say. "He doesn't lie. He doesn't say bad things about other people. And when he knocks on my door, he usually has a new idea.

Precisamos de líderes que acreditem que o mundo pode ser mudado não com mortes ou disparos, mas pela criação e pela competição. Líderes que prefiram ser controversos pelas razões certas, em vez de populares pelas erradas, líderes que usem a imaginação mais do que a memória.

Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of the trust he had placed in me.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Freedom should be manifested within clear ethical guidelines and an egalitarian feedback structure. Informed

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results.

I have no intention of conducting governance for the benefit of specific organizations or individuals; instead I will conduct governance on behalf of the entire people -- the ordinary people who live by the sweat of their brows, love their families, wish to improve their own communities and hometowns, and who want to believe in the future of Japan.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.