Quotes About Integrity

Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

I seldom lie,' he said.

Um bom polícia continua a ser um bom polícia, mesmo que seja um sacana nazi.

I dislike a man who's not precise about what he wants to drink," said Maugham. "You can't rely on a fellow who's vague about his favorite tipple. If he's not precise about something he's going to drink then it's clear he's not going to be precise about anything.

When you're working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then.

You've got me confused with some kind of saint, Noreen. The kind who's OK with being martyred as long as his halo's straight in the photograph. If I'm going to throw myself to the lions, I want it to mean a lot more than just being remembered in some milkmaid's prayers on a Sunday morning. I never was a man for a useless gesture.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

has amounted at times to a crisis of confidence in the police, especially

dishonesty. The 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act requires the recording of all interviews. Most of the major cases involving fabricated evidence predated the act. However, in one case in 1989, the lord chief justice quashed

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet He may be called a Christian Elijah.

Second, character is in some sense an integrated product, as is suggested by the term "character-structure." There is a discoverable pattern in the way the ego is organized; and the existence of such a pattern is the basis of character analysis.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Interestingly, Spinoza's philosophy is both mystical, rational and theistic. Yet he was excommunicated from the Jewish community for his views, denounced as an atheist by Christians and declared so wicked that at one time his books were publicly burnt. Leibniz, who owes a great deal to him, rarely acknowledges the debt. Despite the rigour and integrity of his work, Spinoza remains one of the lesser studied and least regarded of all the rationalist philosophers.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

No matter what our job title, no matter what our pay, we can choose to approach our work with dignity and care.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.