Quotes About Integrity

Living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

fidelity deserved pride of place among the virtues: fidelity gave a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

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Avoir un public, penser à un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge.

Y no me importa que la alegría haya pasado de moda, a lo mejor soy una idiota, pero los otros también son unos idiotas, con esa moda suya del escepticismo, no tengo ningún motivo para cambiar mi idiotez por la de ellos, no quiero que mi vida se parta por la mitad, quiero que sea una sola vida, una sola desde el principio hasta el final...

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

If you're not in it for love, I'm out a here.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

I'm tryna put out the right stuff and just do me and not pay attention to who's hating and who's loving me and make the music I love to make, and make it the best I can.