Quotes About Integrity

A biographer is an artist under oath.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial

Una cuarta característica de todos los superjefes es la integridad. No utilizo la palabra en el sentido coloquial de "honestidad", sino más bien como la estricta adherencia a una visión básica o sentido de sí mismo.

Un quinto y último atributo del superjefe —y una extensión natural de la integridad— es la autenticidad. Muchos jefes cultivan una imagen para beneficio de sus informes. Mantienen una rienda corta sobre sus personalidades, guardándose su "verdadero" yo para cuando están fuera de la oficina. Los superjefes no hacen eso.

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

My dear grandmother (who was a psychic in her own right and very well known in Kansas City, Missouri) used to say if you find someone who doesn't like animals, children, or music . . . run.

But we cannot all be saints. Some of us have to be stewards.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Honesty, humility and hard work will lead to success in life.

To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

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People say, 'Why do you work sex crimes and kid crimes?' I don't enjoy it. But someone's got to do it. And someone's got to do it well.

People say we are defined by the choices that we make;

you can't be ruined by things that others do to you but only by what you do to others.

Money will only make you more of what you already are.