Quotes About Integrity

He is rather an elegant creature and I enjoy looking at him. He pleases me as a man and as a human being. Brilliance, intellectually speaking, is not required of the ministry, but integrity is.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.

Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.

Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.

Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.

Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.' It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.

See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.

Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... - Maya Angelou

She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.

Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.