Quotes About Integrity

I like publicity, but don't resort to cheap tricks.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the truth, and there is no way you're going to let them off the hook.

I have tried so hard to do right.

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

I've never been the guy who tried to line up three or four projects down the road. I like to find one piece that speaks to me and then pour my heart and soul into it. Then I come home, recoup, and relax.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

I always tried to be a guy that plays hard and was committed to giving his all, on and off the court. So that's something I'm really proud of.

I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

I've always taken a lot of pride that people believed in me as a hero. I tried not to fail them in my life.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

What I've always tried to do is undersell and overdeliver.

Leading by example is something I've always tried to pride myself on.

I've always just tried to be a guy who will lead by example, and I feel like if something has to be said, I will say it.