Quotes About Integrity

Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander

You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders' father

Rumours don't usually get started without a reason. - Kurt Wallander

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.

They ask only one question: what is pleasing to the Spirit of God? And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."6

Relate to people as a conqueror and they will hide their real nature from you. Violence is the brother and distrust the sister of this way of life.

I think [Robert E.] Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man, had a good character, and acted conscientiously. It's always the good men who do the most harm.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.