Quotes About Integrity

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Even if there was no long-term economic impact from careful coding I would still choose to write the best code I could.

If you want people to take your advice, you need to solve more problems than you create.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Sins of omission, Louis said. You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Kent Masterson Brown

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

Strength and courage are basic virtues for both followed and follower.

If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion.... There's a lot of people who won't wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what's honorable and decent.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

Like all who have held this office before me, I have experienced setbacks. There are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed my conscience and done what I thought was right. You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions.

Never trust any Goldman

Don't whine, don't complain, and don't make excuses.

An honest God's the noblest work of man.