Quotes About Integrity

Justice at all costs' is not justice.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: Always settle them cases yourself.

But beliefs are neither moral nor immoral. They may be accurate or inaccurate, founded or unfounded, but they acquire moral significance only when they are shaped to serve some ulterior purpose that is either moral or immoral.

But, as the late Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler put it, "the typical university catalog would never stop Diogenes in his search for an honest man."25

Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Once you start living according to other people's rules, going along with what other people think, your soul shrivels and dies.

you have to tell lots of little lies to promote one big lie.

Your behavior inside your home is the real indicator of your character. Not in the workplace, not in school. Sure, it's nice to look good when you leave your home, and make a bella figure. But in terms of your identity, the most important thing is who you are with your parents, with your children, with your cousins. Th most important thing is how you behave with he people who really matter.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. —Debbie Ford

If it lasts, then it's real. If it doesn't, then it wasn't. Either that, or someone screwed it up really badly.

Go out into the world and do well; but more importantly—go out into the world and do good.

We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him.

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

Yet Roddy at least had always been forthright with her. Though she suspected he hid one of his motives

And though Clara couldn't speak, she determined that she would no longer be aimless. Whatever wit or pluck she had would be used for one thing: clearing Mrs. Glendoveer's name.

caelum, non animum mutant, for instance—climate may change, but not character—and

The essence of good government is trust.

Character isn't built, it's bred.

Do you live by your standards?" "Sometimes...sometimes I do, and other times I do what's expected of me.

what they mean by 'love conquers all.' It doesn't transcend life. But it gives it integrity, a noble aim, no matter what the result.

Character is who you are, when nobody is looking.

The easiest thing to do when bad things are being spoken of another is to jump on that slander train. It takes integrity and character to see another's character and integrity to stand up and say that you won't participate in the slander of them.