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Quotes About Integrity

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'
~ George W. Bush
I have no trouble selling out—I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.
~ Harold Ramis
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
~ Honore de Balzac
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
~ Isaac Marion
I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
~ Jason Reitman
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
~ Jayson Blair
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
~ Jermain Defoe
People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.
~ John Ashcroft
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
~ John Dryden
People want the truth, even if they disagree.
~ John McCain
God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.
~ Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.
~ Keyshawn Johnson
I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.
~ Lena Waithe
People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".
~ Marion Raven
I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.
~ Mark Leslie
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.
~ Martin Lawrence
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
~ Maya Angelou