Quotes About Integrity

The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.

respected man once said, that the

faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is "history everyone already knows."2 As such, history becomes nothing but a tool of the present, with no integrity whatsoever of its own.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Never apologise, never explain.

Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.

I had a sense he was offering things abominable to me, like decaffeinated coffee or coitus interruptus

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.