Quotes About Integrity

Then it is he who has sinned, not me. If I had to start worrying whether the client might be lying, I would no longer be in this profession, which is based on trust.

El sabio debe velar de alguna manera los secretos que descubre, para evitar que otros hagan mal uso de ellos.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.

I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.

Tal es la fuerza de la verdad, que, como la bondad, se difunde por sí misma.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

He was thinking about the boy who cried wolf. Honesty is the best policy. Wasn't that the moral of the story, according to Julian Bashir? Or was it: Never tell the same lie twice.

the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would speed him up till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter.

But both of them had been business men all their lives and would take it for granted that their duty to the stockholders of Budd-Erling outweighed any duty they might owe to truth, justice, humanity, or any other glittering generality.

What friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy heart with hooks of steel.

Newspapermen are human, and cannot be blamed by their owners if now and then they yield to the temptation to publish the news.

The father kept two compartments in his mind, one for things that were right, and the other for things that existed, and which you had to allow to exist, and to defend, in a queer, half-hearted, but stubborn way. But here was this new phenomenon, a boy's mind which was all one compartment; things ought to be right, and if they were not right, you ought to make them right, or else what was the use of having any right—you were only fooling yourself about it.

On vaikeaa saada ihminen ymmärtämään jotain, kun hänen palkkana riippuu siitä, ettei hän ymmärrä.

that he sold out his convictions mattered less, for the people had become so cynical about public men that they hoped only to find the least dishonest.

You know the old doctrine that the end justifies the means. I was reading some modern philosopher the other day and noted the statement that it is the means that determine the end.

be yourself." Great-Great-Uncle Eli

For when you let down the bars and admitted the right to lie and to cheat, you were undermining the very bases upon which human societies are built. Particularly when you admitted the right of political parties to lie and cheat, for how, then, could anybody have faith in them? How could their own followers know what they were or what they would become?

No, among Catholics one did not question the purity of the Holy Virgin, and among Nazis one didn't question the honor of the Führer.

They respected this "old man," because he knew his business, and nobody could fool him. Also they liked him, because he combined a proper amount of kindliness with his sternness; he was simple and unpretentious—when the work was crowded, you would have him eating his beans and coffee on a stool in the "eats" joint alongside you. He

In every newspaper-office in America the same struggle between the business-office and the news-department is going on all the time.