Quotes About Integrity

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.

I've come to realize something that for three weeks in my life I'd begun to doubt: There are good people in the world. Good people, kind people. xxx They all could have chosen to be cold, cruel, indifferent. That would have been easy. Brutality, I think, comes naturally to human beings. But they chose to be good, even if what they did could be questioned within the strict confines of the law.

So it was a two ear confession. Those are the best kind you know. The most reliable.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. —Aung San Suu Kyi, "Freedom from Fear

You like to fly under the radar," Romanowski said, locking eyes again with Joe. "When you see something that's wrong, you don't give up. You value being underestimated. In fact, you encourage it. Then, if you have to, you turn fucking cowboy and surprise everyone.

It seems like the good guys turned out to be the bad guys, and the bad guys weren't all that bad.

You ought to get a bumper sticker that says, 'What would Dudley Do-Right Do?' Call it W-W-D-D-R-D. that has a ring to it. (Gov. Rulon to Joe Pickett)

too much honesty.

Outrageous accusations should be met with outraged denials if the person accused was innocent.

The Golden Rule: No update operation must ever assign to any database a value that causes its database predicate to evaluate to FALSE.

Conscience,' Hobbey said with infinite sadness. 'I had one once. Ambition killed it.

that things like 'onor, and justice, and love are the most important things in the world and that it's up to each and every one of us to always try to be the best person we can possibly be.

The world was full of ugliness, Sebastian knew that; ugliness, and ugly people. But you couldn't let them win, those men who took what they wanted with never a thought or care for the ones who suffered and died as a result. You could never stop fighting them, never let them think that what they did was right or somehow justified. Never let them triumph unchallenged.

Dante assigned the hottest circle of hell to those who do nothing in the face of evil. Life shouldn't be about pursuing pleasure or being safe, being comfortable. It's about helping others, and reaching for what's right, and trying to make this a better world.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Mas a verdade é que chega-se sempre longe demais quando não se quer Ir Direto Aos Fatos

Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work.

Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said

Be disciple of depth in shallow world.

example, need to focus on doing serious journalism—diving into complicated

The key to the antinetworking approach is to impress without imploring. The goal is that one day the contact, who has grown fond of you and is impressed by you and your integrity, will notify you that he or she knows of a job opening, and will be willing to recommend you if you are interested.

When I told Mark about Jordan, he agreed that an obsessive focus on the quality of what you produce is the rule in professional music. "It trumps your appearance, your equipment, your personality, and your connections," he explained. "Studio musicians have this adage: 'The tape doesn't lie.' Immediately after the recording comes the playback; your ability has no hiding place.

And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, "Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth.

Segismundo; que aun en sueños no se pierde el hacer bien.