Quotes About Integrity

Kau boleh menembak burung bluejay sebanyak yang kau mau, kalau bisa kena, tetapi ingat , membunuh mockingbird itu dosa. Mocking bird menyanyikan musik untuk kita nikmati, hanya itulah yang mereka lakukan. Mereka tidak memakan tanaman di kebun orang, tidak bersarang di gudang jagung, mereka tidak melakukan apapun kecuali menyanyi dengan tulus untuk kita. Karena itulah, membunuh mockingbird itu dosa.

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

But remember that to kill a mockingburd is a sin.

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

The best apologies are short, and don't go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn't the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication. This is an important and often overlooked distinction.

But an honorable relationship, she reminds us, is one in which "we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us…of life between us." When we are not able to speak authentically, our relationships spiral downward, as does our sense of integrity and self-regard.

I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger

Morality, as I understand it, has to do particularly with how we ought to conduct ourselves in our relations with others.

Harry G. Frankfurt

Sagen, was man denkt. Und vorher was gedacht haben.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

Just speak your mind honestly. That's the best thing. It may hurt a little sometimes, and someone may get upset, but in the long run, it's for the best.

I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.