Quotes About Integrity

Repetition encompasses consistency. Finish what you start. Mean what you say. And don't say one thing and do something else. Consistency is an important aspect of repetition.

Practice what we preach • Nothing less than ecstatic customers • First class for less • Honor intellectual capitalists • Everyone an entrepreneur • Never, ever, ever give up

Integrity matters • Think like a customer • Spirited fun •   Be quick, but don't hurry (borrowed from legendary basketball coach John Wooden) • Employees are critical • Small details are huge • Take care of each other

He places placidity above all                And refuses to prettify weapons;        If one prettifies weapons,                This is to delight in the killing of other..

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Morality is truth in full bloom.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

Right is just and true.

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

No corruption is possible with the diamond.

When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.

He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward!

My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.