Quotes About Integrity

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.