Quotes About Integrity

Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

it is arguable that the most molecular word in political discourse, the noun that denotes something on which all else depends and builds, is neither "justice" nor "freedom" nor "equality." It is "family." Without the nurturing and disciplining done in intact families, individuals are apt to be ill-equipped to exercise the freedom to become unequal, and therefore are handicapped in the pursuit of justice for themselves and others.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

if you don't punish lying in your political leaders, then why should they stop lying?

Friendships built on lies never lasted.

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This is not an heirloom," Alessandro said with grim sincerity. "I didn't take it from my family. I designed it for you and had it made. Nobody else has ever worn it and if you say no, nobody ever will.

When I was little, my grandmother gave me this advice. She said, 'Audrey, if you meet a man who is smooth, who says all the right things and knows all the tricks to make a woman happy, you've got to ask yourself how he got that way.

Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all.

You would be William, then," she said. He nodded. "Are you here for yourself or for Casshorn?" "For Jack," he said. "I see." She didn't, but that seemed like the right thing to say.

An unit is only as good as its leader. That's why a good leader holds herself to the highest standard. It's not about being liked or being fair. It's about deciding what your goal is and doing what is necessary to achieve it. Especially when it's difficult.

How do you explain humanity to someone who has no frame of reference? "It has to do with good and evil. You have to decide for yourself what they are. For me, evil is striving to an end without regard for the means.

If I compromise on this, soon I'll compromise on other things and then I won't be me anymore.

He never stopped being the Beast Lord. He was the man who could dominate thousands of shapeshifters with a single look, and he was also the man who stayed up all night with a child who'd eaten some poisonous herbs in the forest and spent twenty-four hours throwing them up. One couldn't be separated from another. They were all aspects of Curran, and I loved all of him.

If we agree to your proposal, you'll expect us to abide by your contract, which may require us to compromise our ethics.

And I'm too old to appear anything that I'm not.

We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right.

Aha, no, I'm not giving you any sexy healing.

I'm a federal senator!" Drewery roared. "I don't give a fuck.

I'm more than the sum of my physical parts.