Quotes About Integrity

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947

When you know who you are, you will know how to act.

Along in Life As you will go Remember the Times When you must say "NO!

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

he never requires more than I am able to give, and what he does require of me is always appropriate to my knowledge and circumstances....My obligation is to give all I have, not all someone else has, to be as good as I can be, not as good as someone else is.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Be nice to everyone you meet on the way up because you will meet them again on the way down.

When we use a measuring tape, we are using a system of numbers that is human invented. What are the birds using? And further, how are they storing it in memory? To be stored in memory the measurements have to be encoded in some form and that form has to have an internal consistency to it. In other words it has to possess the same kind of structural integrity as our system of mathematical measurement.

which in turn could lead to a breakdown in cognitive integrity and difficulty in distinguishing self from nonself. 4 We need some sort of gating, and some control over gating, in order to function within the sea of sensory communications in which we are embedded.

A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all;

I must not take joy from status or power, but from my accomplishments, and the way I chose to accomplish them.