Quotes About Integrity

Booker T. Washington

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction; it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

E non devi recedere d'un solo briciolo dalla tua persona umana, ma essere vivo, nient'altro che vivo, vivo e nient'altro sino alla fine.

para buscar a verdade é necessário estar só e romper com todos os que não a amam suficientemente.

Solamente los solitarios buscan la verdad y rompen con quien no la ame lo bastante.

Los niños son sinceros, no tienen prejuicios y no se avergüenzan de la verdad, mientras nosotros, por miedo de parecer atrasados, estamos siempre dispuestos a traicionar lo que nos es más querido, a elogiar cosas que nos repugnan y aceptar otras que no comprendemos.

Drop all this foolishness. Once and for all. Do not play the simpleton, do not be coy, do not lower your eyes bashfully. It will end badly someday. The dreadful line is very close here. One step, and you fall straight into the abyss. That is where the whole evil lies. Do not be embarrassed to refuse. Pretend that you never learned to dance or have broken your leg.

en büyük günah, yüreÄŸinin gerçekte hissettiÄŸini inkâr etmektir.

basta fare domande per tenere la coscienza pulita, è un organo ben protetto e di agevole manutenzione.

After all, bragging and boasting aren't honorable; what's honorable is doing one's duty and sacrificing oneself for a noble cause.

reputation for integrity and honor is something you can take anywhere, and it will never let you down.

Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Brad Meltzer

Beecher, did you ever hear that Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?

As Lincoln himself said, "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.

A compleat gentleman seeks a harmonious union of body and soul, and if his will—his soul—is strong then his body ought to be strong as well.

That wasn't why he had accepted this job. He had accepted it because someone needed to be willing to stand up and do the right thing for the nation, no matter what the personal cost.

Often the mere suggestion of impropriety is enough to ruin someone. — Scot Harvath

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.