Quotes About Integrity

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart.

Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.

Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.

The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighborly. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Everything you do or say should be done to obey Jesus your Lord. Colossians 3:17

That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.

Is what I'm saying true? Is it necessary? Will it honor God?

As soon as you can, pay your debts. As long as you can, give the benefit of the doubt. As much as you can, give thanks. He's already given us more than we deserve.

Belief always precedes behavior.

Quiero hacer bien y no saber que lo hice.

You will never go wrong doing what is right.

consequence free.

Proverbs 27:5–6 5It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it. 6The slap of a friend can be trusted to help you, but the kisses of an enemy are nothing but lies.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" (NIV). Such words can cut, can't they? Put them to use. "Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise. Use his words to teach and counsel each other" (Col. 3:16 NLT). Don't make a

Trust God on this one—the short-term pleasure isn't worth the long-term consequences. If you find yourself in a tempting situation, take Paul's advice: run!

Be fiercely loyal to one spouse. Fiercely loyal. Don't even look twice at someone else. No flirting. No teasing. No loitering at her desk or lingering in his office.

Adopt the motto—It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

All aspiring writers say these things: I will not compromise and write a best seller!—as if they could! There may be a few totally faked-up books that sell, but on the whole I believe every writer writes as well as he can.

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

Wholeness, so far as statesmen go, may have something to do with speaking in one's own words. De Gaulle did not call in "writers"; the very idea is grotesque. The leader who allows others to speak for him is abdicating. Who is speaking via Nixon? Who wrote this phrase or that? One is never quite sure.

The truth of her nature gave out an undimmed light—and all her love of beauty, and of persons, was made poignant by this imperishable integrity." Her strength came from very deep and had nothing to do with discipline or control. She never became a character, set in her ways, but remained to the end a nature, rich and open to life, able to deal with radical change and to welcome it.