Quotes About Integrity

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. "You hear me, child. you can't use other folks' bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in our hearts and don't do nothing that would make him ashamed.

His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love." Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.

He'd lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she'd been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy.

Debe prometerme, entrenador, que no la lastimará. ?Lo prometo. ?Lo ha dicho demasiado rápido para mi gusto. La verdad es que no le creo. ?Soy un hombre de palabra, y le prometo que no la lastimaré. ?Flexionó las manos?. Cuando la asesine, lo haré tan rápido que no sentirá nada.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Todo el mundo comenta cómo salvaste la vida de Winnie anoche _ Lo que hice fue hacerle una zancadilla cuando llegamos a la puerta y luego arrastrarla a la calle, para que todos pensara que la había salvado. Él sonrió y levantó su tazón en señal de brindis. _ Bien hecho. _ Veo que has pasado demasiado tiempo en mi poco recomendable compañía.

A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .

But there was something she didn't understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn't above cheating. With

One way to grab your power is to learn when you need to step up to the plate and admit you're wrong, and when you need to dig in your heels because it's the right thing to do." -- Sugar Beth, Ain't She Sweet

People try to bail out without a fight, and too often people take the easy way out. Doesn't anybody have backbone anymore?" -- Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.

I don't want to be a father right now; I sure as hell don't want to be a husband. But you took away my choice, and now you have to make some of that up to me. If you

Ho abbastanza carattere per cui aggiungere anche la bellezza all'insieme sarebbe pura avidità.

Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God.

We can't just leave the places we don't like. That's a child's way of thinking. Sometimes we have to stay because it's right that we do.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words "I love you" are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!