Quotes About Integrity

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

I love people who are real.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

I don't like shorts promoting their position.

unmistakable message to boardrooms across the country: You can't lie to shareholders. You can't put yourself in front of your employees' interests. No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules.

Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

Be extra good. Upon your shoulders rests the reputation of all Chinese.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.

Ramona required accuracy from books as well as people.

She told us we must always rotate our crops and never, never perjure ourselves.

Maybe she was doing the wrong thing, but that was the way she was.

Finding a man who tells the truth is like looking for a dinosaur

An is indisputably correct before just four words beginning with 'h': hour, honest, honour and heir.

Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.