Quotes About Integrity

Good point. But I still go with the Sherlock Holmes axiom." "What's that?" "I'm paraphrasing, but basically Sherlock warned that you should never theorize before you have the facts because then you twist the facts to suit the theory instead of twisting the theory to suit the facts." Brandon

we have a legal system to remedy these things. A perfect system? No. In your free time, you can go through all the prisons and find innocent people who have been incarcerated and help free them. Do it. I'll admire it. But don't break them out of prison, Max. Don't give them guns. Don't let them destroy whatever is left of our tattered

It's about Win," she said. Myron shook his head. "Then it's none of my business." "True enough. But that does not make you immune to responsibility, does it? Win is your friend. I count myself lucky that my son has a friend who cares like you do." Myron said nothing.

The shame of cowardice never leaves.

The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest lie.

If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump.

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.

The only difference, I suppose, between them and me is that I never set out to write shit. (That is: merely sufficient, average.) And of all the crimes that may be attributed to me—numbering among them rudeness, lechery, viciousness, imprudence and disgusting egocentricity—the one that can never be laid on me is the one epitomized by the line, "I just write what they want, by Tuesday, take the money and run.

DIscuss narking as a character flaw.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

No job is ever "beneath" you. In whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities.

good leadership revolves around good judgment. That is the defining characteristic of a good leader.

If you can't justify the rationale of an order to yourself, don't make your subordinates do it. Re-evaluate your reasons and find another method.

Even in the midst of defeat, carry yourself professionally and maintain your discipline. That is the quickest way towards recovery.

everyone deserves respect until they did something to lose it.

there's doubt in your mind, there's no doubt at all." In other words, if you know in your heart that an action is wrong, don't do it.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.

Leaders at all levels must know their stuff, be dead honest, have unquestioned personal integrity, set the example, and treat their people "fair and square.

When a grizzled yeoman worker appeared one morning to complain that as a state legislator many years earlier, in hard times, young Lincoln had inexcusably voted to raise his government salary from two to all of four dollars a day," Lincoln listened to the reproach calmly. "Now, Abe, I want to know what in the world made you do it?" demanded the old Democrat. With deadpan seriousness, Lincoln explained: "I reckon the only reason was that we wanted the money.

His secretary heard Lincoln authoritatively remind a caller on November 15 that "this government possesses both the authority and the power to maintain its own integrity." Here was Jacksonian firmness to spare. "That, however, is not the ugly point of this matter," Lincoln added grimly. "The ugly point is the necessity of keeping the government by force, as ours ought to be a government of fraternity.

To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" ((NKJV)).