Quotes About Integrity

We gather others to follow the good when our knowledge of the way is so strong that doubt can no longer invade our inner serenity; when we no longer feel any need to convince, contend with, or woo people; when we no longer try to employ giant steps or to skip steps in order to make swift progress; when we no longer try to achieve something without working for it.

I agree that we can't be weak. We can fight when attacked, of course, but should we become the attackers?

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.

Love and truth have no correlation.

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

I mean, if a man's really master of his house, he doesna need to tell folks so.

I asked myself what I would like to be able to say at the end of my life's, and it was this: I want to be able to say that I kept my eyes open, faced my issues, and made wholehearted commitments to things I valued.

Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.

It's not right to profit from another person's suffering.

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

Whether those claims are true or false is irrelevant. When we cross these lines, we are justifying behavior that we know is wrong precisely so that we can continue to see ourselves as honest people and not criminals or thieves. Whether the behavior in question is a small thing like spilling ink on a hotel bedspread or a big thing like embezzlement, the mechanism of self-justification is the same.

How do you get an honest man to lose his ethical compass? You get him to take one step at a time, and self-justification will do the rest.

Gentlemen, for all their talk of honour, really had the oddest morals.

I had left her behind, again--because I could not write--write, that is, on my own terms, without concern for the marketplace, without selling out in small but grave ways: writing for magazines, or teaching prematurely, or making uncsoncious decisions that might make the work more sexy, more accessible--but for all the wrong reasons. It seemed crucial not to derail myself now, not to subvert myself, not give in.

Men don't usually leave cosy relationships unless they've found someone who wears ridiculously short skirts and stockings.

Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy

There is no such thing as a one-night stand. Sometimes, what you do for one night destroys your future.

well, you can't call yourself a hero if you're lying to someone you love.