Quotes About Integrity

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything that I can not explain as a fraud.

If you let someone talk you out of the word "no," you might as well wear a sign that reads, "You are in charge.

The worst response when someone fails to accept "no" is to give ever-weakening refusals and then give in.

Samuel Smiles said, "Personalities itself is plainly a vehicle for self-advancement. Men who's acts are a direct variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight." Trust, formerly earned through actions, is now purchased through slight of hand and slight of words.

The unsolicited promise is one of the most reliable signals because it is nearly always of questionable motive.

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Where do I feel out of integrity with myself? What is keeping me from feeling complete and whole?

What important feelings am I not letting into my awareness? Where in my life am I not telling the full truth? Where in my life have I not kept my promises? In my relationship with _____________________, what do I need to say or do to feel complete and whole?

él estaba cumpliendo con su deber, estaba haciendo no lo que quería sino lo que tenía que hacer

When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.

The moment a structure begins to promote itself, it has violated the nature of Christ and has drunk the poison of its death.

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

But you could've at least told me. Instead of dropping me like a one night stand, you could've had the decency to break up with me instead of leaving me wondering for years...

Ain't such a line between faking and being.

C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.

No one can call you a liar for sharing your personal experience. - Scott Davis

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!