Quotes About Integrity

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Oprah. Her advice is tacked to the wall in my study: "Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn't work that way.

I am responsible for holding you accountable in a respectful and productive way. I'm not responsible for your emotional reaction to that accountability

Grace will take you places hustling can't.

I've learned that power is not bad, but the abuse of power or using power over others is the opposite of courage; it's a desperate attempt to maintain a very fragile ego.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more.

When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process. When we reduce Muslim people to terrorists or Mexicans to "illegals" or police officers to pigs, it says nothing at all about the people we're attacking. It does, however, say volumes about who we are and the degree to which we're operating in our integrity.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean.

When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be.

Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.

Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.

Very few people can handle being held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down;

Nothing serves as a better reminder of that than the immortal words of my friend Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit." That's also a touchstone of my spiritual beliefs.

We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.

Taking pleasure in someone else's failings, even if that person is someone we really dislike, can violate our values and lead to feelings of guilt and shame. But, make no mistake, it's seductive, especially when we're sucked into groupthink.

Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn't work that way.

You learn how to plant your damn feet is what you do. You bend and stretch and grow, but you commit to not moving from who you are.

Don't shrink. Don't puff up. Stand on your sacred ground.

trust is in fact earned in the smallest of moments.

who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.