Quotes About Integrity

Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time." Or her.  What we do is who we are.  When someone says, "That's not me," after doing something or saying something hurtful, they are mistaken.  That is them.  That is exactly them or at least a part of them and it may be a part of them that you do not want in your life.

A leader's job is to get it right for the organization, not to be right.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

Corruption wouldn't be tempting if it didn't feel so good.

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

Newton wrote, "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas." That is Latin for, "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth." When

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

I have been telling a lot of lies lately.

I didn't think I seemed like the sort of person who would mind." "What?" "I'd have fucked you anyway." . . . "I thought I'd lose you," he said at last. "Have you ever told me the truth?" "Look—" he paused. "People lie to me all day long. And I lie to them all day long. I've done it all my life.

I don't care what you do," Malloy said to me, "you can do anything you want, but if you ever tell anyone I eat frozen diet dinners, I'll kill you.

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry." "And you're still not sorry," I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks. "No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.

I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks. 'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.

And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.

What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

Only.. I want to do die as myself

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.