Quotes About Integrity

In the end, it was one or the other—be myself, or please my father. I chose me. And loyalty to my real friends.

She didn't protect her own computers with a password, even the one she worked on here at the B and B. But there was hardly any crime in Whiskey Creek, and she had nothing to hide.

there were two kinds of men: strong men, who remained true to their internal compasses regardless of all else; and weak men who were easily misled and wound up cheating themselves of all they could be. He'd told Gabe he only wanted strong men

You're like…you're like Abraham Lincoln. Didn't he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.

Do what you think is right," he said. "Just..." "What?" Riley asked. "Make sure you're thinking with the right head." Riley felt his jaw drop. "Excuse me?

I chose protection over honesty.

I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made. (Tom Lasser, p. 358)

if you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

The worth of a person is more important than what a person is worth.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

Moral of the story?

What is the most significant conversation you have every day?" People would respond piously, "Your conversation with God, of course." "No," Lewis would reply. "It's the conversation you have with yourself before you speak to God, because in that conversation with yourself, you decide whether you are going to be honest and authentic with God, or whether you are going to meet God with a false face, a mask, an act, a pretense.

Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.

Why can't we admit that focusing on getting our words and beliefs right has not succeeded in helping us be good?

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

For me, Carol, we can't be faithful to God unless we're faithful to the facts, faithful to the data if you will. And so, instead of hiding from evolution, I think we'd be more faithful to God to look it right in the eye and learn from it.

How one is remembered doesn't matter when one is focused on integrity.

We must face our responsibilities regardless of whether we get what we want.

If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works—or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience.

A man never gets over losing his son, or his honor.

House Atreides values loyalty and honor far above politics.

Those who seek fame and glory are least qualified to possess it.

The law is not a ball of twine, to be picked at and unraveled until there is nothing left of it.

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.