Quotes About Integrity

Rather be dead than cool.

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

The worst crime is faking it

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not' Could be a summary of my book, 'Guilt Trip

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Rather be dead then cool

Kaminski plunged ahead. "I am not going to sign off on anything related to the Raptors," he said. "And I don't care if I'm fired for it." Buy raised a hand. "Whoa, wait a minute, I don't think you'll be fired," he replied quickly. "Now that Skilling's gone, we have a different mantra in Enron." He looked Kaminski in the eye. "We're expected to be honest", he said. p.525

Whitman approached Friend. "Dorie?" she said. "Can we speak?" Whitman waited until everyone else left the room to say more. "I want to tell you, if Kurt sues the school, he will win," she said. "And not only that—I'll testify on his behalf.

Giving somebody false hope is worse than not giving them any hope at all, I think. You want to be honest with people even in small things because if you're not, then how will they believe you in anything that you say? The whole idea is the trust that you develop with your patient is something that's the responsibility of the doctor. It's as important as the medicine that you give somebody, if that's necessary.

Never lie, assess character, appeal to principles, answer every question, and determine what impediments might keep them from speaking. Reporters need persistence, not the name of some major publication behind them, to crack a story.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Center for Relational Recovery on a pleather

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

I'm hardly a stranger to the concept of bending rules to achieve a greater good.

What's a woman supposed to do when her angel starts using her devil's tools?

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

The spirit of deception, you see," Father Maximos explained, "has egotism and pride as its primary attribute.