Quotes About Integrity

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

We have a choice about how we are going to live our day-to-day lives. We can walk in the Spirit or in the flesh. We can choose to forgive . . . or we can hold grudges. We can gossip about people . . . or we can choose to speak only good words about others. We can snap at a store clerk . . . or we can give grace and mercy. We can trust in God with our lives and walk in faith . . . or we can depend on ourselves and the world systems.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Why is she trying so hard to hide? She's never been a follower.

Doing what's right isn't supposed to hurt someone you care about.

Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's integrity on the other?

Success. Power. But you know, it's not winning if it comes at the expense of someone else. Success should come from giving not taking.

I'm safe, even if I'm a jerk." "I have friends who will hunt you down and kill you if I go missing.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

But Dani made him feel like the guy he wanted to be. Trustworthy. Honorable. She wanted him want to be more, to do anything to see respect - even love - in her eyes

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

She was ten years old. "That's about the age when people start deforming their consciences in order to accept something that's not just manifestly wrong but manifestly contrary to the religious beliefs that are front and center in their lives." Like Bettina Stangneth or Jan Philipp Reemtsma or David Person, Diane McWhorter cannot say why her conscience resisted attempts to deform it.

The problem with Harry was that he didn't just pick one lie and stick with it.

Another writer described the building as being "as frank and open and honest as the eyes of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.

My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her children, raised us on a Spartan diet of independent thought, moral integrity, and self-reliance that has shaped our relations with the world, making our paths more difficult but the journey more meaningful.

live accordingly to the truths within yorself

You get what you tolerate.

There is something within us that responds deeply to people who level with us.

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