Quotes About Integrity

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. If I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging that it comes from Him.

It's not enough to be clever. You have to be clever and kind.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

She was not someone's sister, she was not someone's child. She was Dolores and Dolores was the good guys.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society-the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal.

The commander spoke to them as he always did, with sincerity and determination, but without theatrics.

Sometimes," Trumbo said to me once, "I think what a terrible state we're in when a man can be considered honorable simply because he isn't a shit.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Advice for writers: if you're a writer, a real writer, a really, really real writer, like, REALLY a writer, you should not write a sentence like this one.