Quotes About Integrity

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love... enjoying what you love... and being true to yourself... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?

Tell me, I don't know much about martial arts... But what does it mean to be strong? Is it something you can attain only by lying to yourself? I'm sorry, but I think hiding your true self-- pretending to be different from what you are-- is a form of cowardice. Don't you think it's important to acknowledge who you are? Having the courage to be able to admit what you love... enjoying what you love... and being true to yourself-- isn't that also what it means to be strong?

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

Crazy Horse was dead. He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save his people, and he fought the Wasichus only when they came to kill us in our own country. He was only thirty years old. They could not kill him in battle. They had to lie to him and kill him that way.

And if trust is the first requisite for making a friend, faithfulness is the first requisite for keeping him.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

We do, as a new Government, have to be extremely careful after 18 years in opposition. A lot of people who worked for us, they then go on and work for the lobby firms. I think we have to be very careful with people fluttering around the new Government, trying to make all sorts of claims of influence, that we are purer than pure, that people understand that we will not have any truck with anything that is improper in any shape or form at all.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The only shame is to have none

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.