Quotes About Integrity

Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.

Yer a worse gossip than a old woman.: :It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.:

Life isn't fair' is nothing but an excuse people make to justify bad things they do. But why shouldn't life be fair? What's keeping it from being fair? Those same cruel, mean, and evil people. I think you understand that, Mags—maybe not in your head, but in your heart, which is more important. And the more people there are who try to make life fair, the more likely it is that it will become fair. Don't you want that?:

Mags, there will be many things that you should be afraid of. I am not telling you to never be afraid. But you must not let fear rule you. It should guide you, not govern you. And you should never allow it to stop you from doing what is right.:

Hiçbir adam?n kendisine uygun olmayan bir yerde dövüÅŸmeyi reddetmesi yüzünden korkak diye an?lmas?na izin vermeyin.

Life isn't fair' is nothing but an excuse people make to justify bad things they do. But why shouldn't life be fair? What's keeping it from being fair? Those same cruel, mean, and evil people.

Contempt for kindness and generosity is the surest sign there is that someone has nothing else left to them but a horrible emptiness much worse than weakness. It's an—anti-strength.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don't think I want to know.

To find the right person, you must first BE the right person.

If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out!

We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I'd prefer to be known for the opposite.

But above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough.

Fear forces you to look tough on the outside but makes you weak on the inside.

Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Without justice there can be no love.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

To be loving we willingly hear each other's truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love.

There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.

there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.