Quotes About Integrity

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

Defense counsel is aware she is a juicy pulchritudinous dish—and yet, the witness is being berated for merely avoiding the salacious temptations of her intoxicatingly firm and fervently aromatic flesh! I move to censure, really!! CUNNINGHAM: I withdraw the question.

Being truthful to a degree worthy of God means so much more than simply not lying. It means we take the time to discern what the truth is.

If two people are honest with each other, there is no kind of woe they can't survive.

Be honest in everything you do, and insist on honesty from anyone with whom you share a relationship.

17So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively…. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.

But Lincoln was as immovable as stone. "I am a slow walker," he said, "but I never walk back." He conceded that the final proclamation "has done about as much harm as good.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Instead of asking "What is the 'right' or 'wrong' thing to do?" the practitioner asks, "What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

A Prussian officer was expected to share a set of core values, defining his "honor," which took precedence over an order. If he acted in accordance with honor – or, as we might more commonly say today, with integrity – disobedience was legitimate. The right talent and the right behavioral biases were put in place as a first step.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.