Quotes About Integrity

You must love the truth more than anything else, and your love of the truth must grow. You must be able to feel the truth as distinct from other forms of stimulation—self-validation, pleasure, fulfillment or anything else—for the truth has its own experience, which is unique. As you are able to identify it, value it and experience it again and again, you will want to return to it.

Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

You would not lie—you are almost incapable of it. Your disposition would not allow such a thing.

Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself.

People don't necessarily like to be experimented on. Not even by fiction.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?

What did you lie to me

Well, here is one who, whatever her defects, probably does what she believes as nearly as possible.

A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word art. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

No act of killing can be justified.

Your action, what you do, depends on who you are. The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. [...] So there is a link between doing and being. If you don't succeed in being, you can't succeed in doing.

We are not noble by birth. We are noble only by virtue of the way we think, speak, and act.

The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

1. Tell the truth. Don't lie or turn the truth upside down. 2. Don't exaggerate. 3. Be consistent. This means no double-talk: speaking about something in one way to one person and in an opposite way to another for selfish or manipulative reasons. 4. Use peaceful language. Don't use insulting or violent words, cruel speech, verbal abuse, or condemnation.

I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. The

Jon Tester became a multi-millionaire in the Senate, even bought a Cosmopolitan Castle on Capitol Hill. I don't want a castle in Washington, and I don't think becoming a senator should make you rich enough to buy one.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.