Quotes About Integrity

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat , you know. I've never been very good at those.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. TOM WAITS

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The true friend is the one that's coming in the door while everyone else is going out.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest

Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

recognizing the early signs of toxicity in our leaders can enable us to take preventive medicine, not passively imbibe their seductive poison.33

Many males who we have surveyed said they felt most like a man when they were honest about who they were, confidently made decisions and actively pursued their dreams.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.

Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If

To lack a constant livelihood, yet to have a constant heart—only a scholar is capable of this.

Mengzi responded, "If Your Majesty regards them as excellent, then why do you not put them into practice?" The King said, "We have a weakness. We are fond of wealth.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.