Quotes About Integrity

En batallas tales los que vencen son leales, los vencidos los traidores.

He's a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.

Of course, the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

If you're gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.

everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Bless your critics for their honesty. They do not criticize you to be a blessing to you, but the end product may be the same.

Do you want to sing and play psalms? Then not only must your voice sing God's praises but your actions must keep in tune with your voice.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

And the thing about understanding yourself, knowing your true colors, is that you have to be true to them. For if you don't, they change, and so do you.

It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.

I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

La verdad del escritor no coincide con la verdad de quienes reparten el oro.

La fidelidad a los demás, si no coincide, como una moneda con otra moneda, con la violenta y propia fidelidad al dictado de nuestra conciencia, no es maña de mayor respeto que la disciplina – o los reflejos condicionados – del caballo del circo.