Quotes About Integrity

Have you ever physically turned from a sin and ceased the activity, yet continued to cherish it to some degree in your heart?

Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true." Isaiah 43:9

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

There for the taking. Simply put, we're meant to be agents of good in the world, not professional closers for Jesus. But make no mistake: when we endure and do good, that will witness.

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. Psalm 119:30

Uncommon friends can speak their minds without fear. Imagine the tone David probably used with Jonathan when he asked, "What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to take my life?" (v. 1).

and place the result out there. I believe that, but in this case I just can't do it. The contents of these pages are so important to me that I desperately

Never, ever do the easy wrong instead of the harder right.

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I have to be responsible with my character, my image and my reputation.

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.