Quotes About Integrity

If it's convenient to love you, you're lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

I want you to want me. But I want you to want me for all the right reasons.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you, do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Grandfather could've declared bankruptcy and not pay back his debts. That's the trouble with the Oyamas. They want to act big and generous and honest with the outsiders. They want to put up a big face at the expense of their children.

My father had two favorite sayings. One is a saying about samurai. It is a kind of proverb that says a samurai must keep to a higher standard than the common man. Even if he has nothing to eat, he pretends that he has plenty, meaning that a samurai never lets go of his pride.

Then with his first step he goes to (the hell of) evil thoughts, with his second to (the hell of) evil words, and with his third to (the hell of) evil deeds.

Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.

Això d'animar les altres a mentir en benefici nostre ha de ser un pecat més greu que el de mentir nosaltres mateixes.

No trobeu que la mentida de fer veure que es perdona amb paraules però no de cor és més greu que el simple fet de no perdonar?

Listen, I said, I don't think you understand. I don't want to be presumptuous, but really how could you understand what another person's suicide means? My friend asked the waitress for more coffee. I said that actually, now, I'd begun to measure a person's character and integrity by their ability to kill themselves.

?ovje?e, sjeti se da si ravan onome pred kim se ponizuješ, i ne ponizuj se! Hodaj uspravno, ne pla?i pred tu?im vratima, jer iza tih vrata za tebe nema nikoga, pljusni i pljuni, ali se ne ponizuj.

Ljudi se me?usobno varaju, lažu jedni drugima u lice, obmanjuju se laskanjem i prozirno pretvorljivim udvaranjem, a to im ?esto poštenoljudski izgleda nerazmjerno hrabrije nego da jedni drugima kažu golu istinu.

Je?li chcesz pozna? czyj? prawdziwy charakter, daj mu w?adz? i pieni?dze. Wtedy poka?e ci swoj? w?a?ciw? twarz.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

You really loved her?' 'I would have given my life.' 'Would you have taken it?' 'No, child,' he said. 'That is not ours to do.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm.

And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too —even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

Faith isn't about doing. You are how you act not just how you believe.

Secrets, they'll tear you apart.

I decided Im going to live-or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.