Quotes About Integrity

Guard your integrity as a sacred thing; nothing at last is sacred except the integrity of your own mind.

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

In addition to feeling excellent about yourself when you behave with character, you also earn the respect and esteem of all the people around you. They will look up to you and admire you. Doors will be opened for you. People will help you. You will be paid more, promoted faster, and given even greater responsibilities. As you become a person of honor and character, opportunities will appear all around you.

Well, most of the time I do what feels right. But I admit there are times when I give in to my ego. Sometimes the rationalizations are so good that it's easy to sidestep what's right. But eventually you do always realize if you haven't been true to yourself. There's that tiny niggling but persistent voice at the back of your head that is not very easy to ignore for long.

You will have many ups and downs in life, but what is most important is that you remain "true to yourself." Then, as Shakespeare said, "thou can'st not then be false to any man.

It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently with a value or to compromise it- that you demonstrate your true character...Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities.

Never trust a man who spends too much time on his hair.

He was trusted to the point of death by one hundred thousand fighting men, but he himself always had his lurking doubts.

There would not be much left if every useful thing that could be turned to bad ends were destroyed.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower." Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

Only liars manage always to be out of the market during bad times and in during good times.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

Every no I say is a yes to myself. It feels right to me. People don't have to guess what I want or don't want, and I don't need to pretend. When you're honest about your yeses and noes, it's easy to live a kind life. People come and go in my life when I tell the truth, and they would come and go if I didn't tell the truth. I have nothing to gain one way, and everything to gain the other way. I don't leave myself guessing or guilty.

To make amends" means to right the perceived wrong. What I call "living amends" is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

What is whole, this is whole; what has come out of the whole is also whole. When the whole is taken out of the whole, the whole still remains whole.

C. Rajagopalachari

knowledge, that is merely so much undigested information crammed into the mind, cannot instil virtue.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn't get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.

I always say there's nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it's not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.