Quotes About Integrity

Until you trust you, you will be suspicious, disconnected and dishonest with yourself and everyone else

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother. Somehow, some way, Mother always finds out that you are lying. When she does, there is hell to pay!

Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

When we say I won't take this anymore, that's when we know who we are and what we'll tolerate. Until we're tested, we don't know those things. That's when we wake up. That's when we know who we are. That's when people will show up and take your side. When you decide what it is you stand for, when standing is the hardest.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move'.

If you hold fast to what's true and right and just, things work out.

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

Don't trust me. Don't like me. I could give a shit. But don't you ever lie to me." He took a deep breath, as if he were drawing her into him. "I can smell the sex coming off you right now. I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you?" No, she probably wouldn't.

If you find yourself talking about everything you have or showing off by being publicly generous instead of privately, then you have a problem with pride.

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

You go into marriage, you plow a road. You're going to hit rough patches, and some may be rougher and last longer than others, but you've got choices to make. You work to smooth them out, you hold until they do, or they don't. You stick with the road, or you get off. But you don't do something to make it worse, don't do something that maybe makes you feel better for the short term while it sucker punches the person you're married to.

Don't make threats unless you intend to follow through.

If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.

Your view on this is narrow. That's how you're built." It didn't feel narrow to her. It felt right. "Marriage is a promise. That's one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it's going to crack other parts.

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What

Justice doesn't hide behind anonymity. It doesn't operate without rules of conduct.

Sometimes a well-placed lie saved friendships, and sanity.

Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

There's always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it's money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. —Frank A. Clark