Quotes About Integrity

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.

It is written that it is better to be burned in a kiln than to shame another," my father said.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed.

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

Cathy le dijo que la tarea más importante en la vida era limpiar los propios actos, comprometerse totalmente con la realidad, poner toda la energía en el presente y hacerlo ahora, inmediatamente.

Capitaine Etienne Relais was known to be incorruptible in an ambience in which vice was the norm, honor for sale, and laws made to be broken, and men operated on the assumption that he who did not abuse power did not deserve to have it.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

Casi todo el mundo miente, unos por vanidad, para presentarse bajo una luz favorable, otros por temor y la mayoría simplemente por hábito.

La esencia de un buen médico consiste en la capacidad de compasión y el sentido de la ética, sin los cuales el arte sagrado de la sanación degenera en simple charlatanería.

Esto te demuestra, Maurice, que la decencia sucumbe rápidamente ante la codicia.

Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

He was proud of the fact that he did not owe anyone anything

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

Para una mujer en mi situación era fácil conseguirlo; incluso mi confesor, un fraile maloliente y lascivo, pretendía que pecáramos juntos en su polvoriento confesionario a cambio de indulgencias para acortar mi condena en el purgatorio. Nunca accedí; era un viejo maldito.

Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.

We can speak up because we don't care to compete, to please, or to be popular.