Quotes About Integrity

I always believe that if you have a good heart, you just want to do what's right. You don't want to step on anyone.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

One of the most important actions, things a leader can do, is to lead by example. If you want everyone else to be passionate, committed, dedicated, and motivated, you go first!

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

We wanted to be footballers, not part of some gang.

The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.