Quotes About Integrity

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.

Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make A Deal.

Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

The truth will make you odd.

What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat

All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wrong.

All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wrong.

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.

And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.

never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Seiner Erfahrung nach wurden die schlimmsten Übel auf der Welt nicht durch böse Menschen bewirkt. Von denen gab es in Wahrheit erstaunlich wenige. Viel gefährlicher waren Leute, die sich im Recht glaubten. Sie waren ungeheuer zahlreich, und sie kannten keine Gnade.

Everything I do, I am responsible for; there is always something else I could have done, some other attitude I could have taken up. To say I am overcome by emotion is to evade the fact that I was the one who acted, who thought at the time that what I was doing was the right thing to do.

A virtue is a disposition which is central to the person, to whom he or she is, a way we standardly think of character.