Quotes About Integrity

Anyone who's really fighting for justice must live as a private citizen and not as a public figure if he's going to survive even a short time.

No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Someone might say: " Are you not ashaed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" Howeverm, Ishould be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man

Someone might say: " Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" Howeverm, I should be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man

Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad people ultimately harm only themselves: nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death

Si pensáis que matando a la gente vais a impedir que se os reproche que no vivís rectamente, no pensáis bien. Este medio de evitarlo ni es muy eficaz, ni es honrado. El más honrado y el más sencillo no es reprimir a los demás, sino prepararse para ser lo mejor posible.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return.

Sócrates dijo a sus amigos: «Algunos de vosotros me habéis dicho: Sócrates, si no se ocupara más que de sus asuntos, seguramente podría escapar a la ira del gobierno. Pero yo no puedo. Una vida aceptada sin reflexión, no merece la pena vivirla. Lo menos que se puede esperar de nosotros es que nos comportemos como hombres.»

Knowledge is the only virtue," because "Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La buena conciencia es la mejor almohada para dormir" (Sócrates)

The purpose in life is to develop a strong character.

Man, you don't speak well, if you believe that a man worth anything at all would give countervailing weight to the danger of life or death, or give consideration to anything but this when he acts: whether his action is just or unjust, the action of a good or of an evil man.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Buddha said: "Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain." Similarly he said: "Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.

People will die as they have lived, as themselves.

Whatever we do, with our body, speech or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. The results of our actions are often delayed. What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

A bad person has good friends and a good person has many enemies.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.