Quotes About Integrity

Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise