Quotes About Integrity

Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.

I'd thought I'd be perceived as cool if I acted like I was up for anything. Instead I discovered that some things just aren't worth it.

I looked behind me to make sure my jeans hadn't caught on fire yet from all the lying.

Because promises are potato chips. They're cheap. Easy to break. Too many hurt your heart.

Henry Ford inviting job candidates to dinner and watching them eat. He never hired the man who salted his food before tasting it.

I will canoodle with a dumb man, but I won't snuggle with an asshole.

People go through life trying to please some audience. But once you realize there's no audience, life is simple. It's just doing what you know in your gut is right.

You're American," she said simply. "You think straightforwardness is a virtue.

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world. Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.

No, it's not okay to cry, because when dignity is all you have left you can't afford to lose it.

Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten. Integrity rarely means that we need to add something to ourselves: it is more an undoing than a doing, a freeing ourselves from beliefs we have about who we are and ways we have been persuaded to 'fix' ourselves to know who we genuinely are.

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about what other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

Just because I am not a saint does not mean that I am a demon

Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.

Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end

I figure a kid who takes that much pride in doing the small jobs the right way won't fail when it comes to the big ones.

Here was one perfect example of why he preferred to work with computers and code. They did what was required of them. They didn't cheat, didn't betray, didn't wake up one morning with a damned tumor that knocked them to their knees.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...