Quotes About Integrity

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.

I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

You don't have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don't leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don't leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you're all of a piece

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

In the majority of sane human lives there is no problem of sex at all; there is no problem of marriage at all; there is no problem of temperament at all; for all these problems are dwarfed and rendered ridiculous by the standing problem of being a moderately honest man and paying the butcher.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

To be good, you must learn to be yourself at the bargaining table.

The best way to fight this is to recognize it, name it, and refuse to go along with it.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.