Quotes About Integrity

Whoever harms an innocent man, pure and faultless, his evil comes back at him like dust thrown into the wind. Sutta Nipata 662

The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee from all the worldly demands made on them. High praise is due to the man who speaks and knows, who listens and retains, who retains and acts.

Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string." A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge and action. Knowledge is acquired, because it is a ladder leading up to action, which is true action only if it leads to God.

Mamá, puedes pedirme lo que sea, pero no que me coma a mi mejor amigo.

Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

Admiral Stephen Decatur's widely publicized toast in 1816, "our country, right or wrong," struck Adams as not only discordant but immoral.

Wilson also makes a powerful point when he says that strong character leads to the integrated self—a joining of head and heart, where thoughts, feelings, and actions are in harmony, resulting in behavior that demonstrates the character of an individual who walks the talk of his or her belief system.

Bad profits are about extracting value from customers, not creating value.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

There is a close relationship between truth and trust.

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was… and trying to share it—not right away—only after I had worked hard at trying to understand it.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

The croupier at the roulette table does not claim that he knows something about the order in which the numbers will come up. He just sees to it that the bets are properly paid off and that the house isn't gypped - which is a job requiring competence.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...there are no reason not to make them...

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

Sic multa, quae honesta natura videntur esse, temporibus fiunt non honesta: facere promissa, stare conventis, reddere deposita, commutata utilitate, fiunt non honesta.

Tu vero abi," inquit, "in te magis quam in me hostilia ausus. Iuberem macte virtute esse, si pro mea patriaista virtus staret: nunc iure belli liberum te intactum inviolatumque 250 hinc dimitto.

Quidquid est enim quod deceat, id tum apparet cum antegressa est honestas.