Quotes About Integrity

My dad was in the FBI when Hoover ordered the roundup of Asian Americans. He hated it and quit, joined the navy, and spent the next three years fighting in the South Pacific. Like so many, he didn't talk a lot about the war. But when it came to leaving the FBI, he told me once, "You can always say no.

So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.

When I get kind of low, I'd think about a verse I learned at one time, when everybody was fighting me. It went something like this: He has no enemies, you say, My friend, the boast is poor. He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have foes. If he has none, Small is the work he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip, Has cast no cup from perjured lip, Has never turned the wrong to right, He's been a coward in the fight.

I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.

There's no getting around the fact that Robinson met these challenging days with maturity and courage,' she would write in 1956. 'It takes guts to keep your mouth shut and walk away. It is against every normal reaction of human behavior. But Robinson did it.

I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

She is just straight all the way up and down, including her nose and mouth and hair.

Goodness means telling good lies, so that people won't get hurt by true words.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.

Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta," Mithan said. "It means good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

Enough! I've known Alice for almost four years, and I would never use her for gain. Our friendship stands apart from family politics, business, and everything else.

Lawyers are the vilest creatures on earth—less than human

that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

People do not like to be sold, prove yourself trustworthy once and they will trust you forever.

Remember this as long as you live: Whenever you meet up with anyone who is trying to cause trouble between people, anyone who tries to tell you that a man can't be a good American because he's a Catholic, or a Jew, a Protestant, or whatever, you can be pretty sure he's a rotten American himself. Not only a rotten American, but a rotten human being. Don't ever forget that.

No one stays good in this world.

If you want information from me, you'll explain why. If you're unwilling to do that, then you can just trot your arrogant carcass out of my office and quit wasting my time. I have work to do.

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

The stories of my heroes provided me with MUCH better things to think about. Important things, meaningful things, real things that mattered and didn't depend on ratings. Learning about them, reading their words made me want to be a better person.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

You were supposed to stay with her in that moment, with tenacity and honesty. And that's what you did." "I wasn't honest. I lied!" "And you're aware of the lie, and aware of the reason you told it. You were there in that circumstance, Sarah. More then Joelle.