Quotes About Integrity

Acknowledge your critics, but do what's right.

You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed.

You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly, and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

Accountable people absorb setbacks and keep going. Accountable people persevere through problems and keep pushing forward. Accountable people are results oriented and never defend actions, skill levels, models, systems, or relationships that just aren't get ting the job done.

Pero un día te acabas dando cuenta de que el trabajo es una pelota de goma: si la dejas caer, rebotará y volverá a subir. Las otras cuatro bolas —familia, salud, amigos e integridad— son de cristal. Si dejas caer alguna de ellas, irremediablemente se rayará, se agrietará o incluso se hará añicos».

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

are no excuses, no hiding places, and no "victim behavior." Goal pursuit, for

If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

It's better to admit your weaknesses and make provision for them than to pretend you're something you're not and suffer the consequences when your true character surfaces. Caring about not hurting girls or tempting boys you've not yet dated trains you toward compassion. And compassion will serve you very well in marriage.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Here's the reality: many women are led into marriage primarily through romantic idealism, and many men are swept to the altar through sexual attraction. Before you can make a wise marital choice, you have to rid yourself of inferior motivations. The wrong why will lead you to the wrong who.

Understanding the truth is the doorway to new life. And understanding the truth often requires the use of labels. Honoring someone, whether that person is a boss, parent, or spouse, doesn't mean we have to pretend they're something they're not. Honoring and honesty can exist side by side.

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency."3 I AM TOLD OVER AND OVER IN SCRIPTURE THAT MY DUTY AS A CHRISTIAN IS TO BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS CHRIST.

BUILDING A SACRED HISTORY TOGETHER TEACHES US TO BE PERSISTENT IN DOING GOOD, EVEN WHEN WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.

How often do we Christians "take the Lord's name in vain" during our worship? It matters to God if we lie, even if we're singing, and even if everybody around us is singing the same thing. Music can make us feign a commitment that just isn't there, causing us to become callous, insincere believers.

Honesty demands directness: God has to discipline us to transform us.

but if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.

Would that it were the reverse, with girlfriends seriously discussing with their friends their boyfriends' weakness so that they could make a wise decision, and wives seriously defending their husbands' honor so that they could make a lasting marriage. Unfortunately, ignoring your boyfriends' weakness and gossiping about your husband's failures are two sure paths to divorce.

Hendricks turned to his wife and said, "A great man. How many great men do you know?" "One fewer than you think," she answered.

It wasn't easy. In junior high, I was voted "most polite," and it took some time for me to realize that being perceived as a "nice guy" and being a faithful Christian don't always go hand in hand.

A heavyweight boxing champion who dodges all serious contenders to consistently fight marshmallows is derided and ridiculed—and rightly so. Christians who dodge all serious struggle and consciously seek to put themselves in whatever situations and relationships are easiest are doing the same thing—they are coasting, and eventually that coasting will define them and—even worse—shape them.

Lying about what you want out of marriage going in because you're afraid you'll lose the relationship if you are honest is one of the worst kinds of fraud you could ever commit.