Quotes About Integrity

the importance of preserving the integrity of a non-scientific form of understanding, the kind of understanding characteristic of the arts and the kind of understanding that Goethe, Spengler and Wittgenstein sought to protect from the encroachment of science and scientism.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

God does not want a church filled with white-robed saints. He does not want a church filled with theological authorities or cultured clergyman. He wants a church filled with ordinary men and women who exemplify the extraordinary integrity, temperament, wholeness, compassion, individuality, boldness, righteousness, earnestness, love, forgiveness, selflessness, and faithfulness of Jesus Christ!

Don't complain, don't explain.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

People don't take kindly to having others mess around with their beliefs....

The most serious dangers emanate from those for whom the moral high ground is a platform for self-advancement, many of whom have never borne, or have been willing to bear, the responsibilities that weigh on the daily life of practitioners.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

Today California buried Supreme Court Justice, Fritz Rayburn. Governor Joe Davidson delivered the eulogy calling the judge a friend, a confidant, and his brother in service to the great state of California. The governor cited Fritz Rayburn as a man of extraordinary integrity who relentlessly pursued justice, continually uplifted those in need and, above all, protected those who were powerless.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Omul, atunci can e desavarsit, este cel mai bun dintre fiinte, dar atunci cand e lipsit de lege si dreptate, devine cel mai rau dintre toate, caci nedreptatea care dispune de arme este cea mai primejdioasa; iar omul este inzestrat la nastere cu arme menite a fi fosite cu inteligenta si virtute, dar pe care el le poate pune in slujba scopurilor celor mai rele.

If a coach wants me to stay, then I think it's good that he doesn't just butter things up, but actually tells the truth.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.