Quotes About Integrity

Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.

Who says that taking the supposed high road is the best path?

It is always of paramount importance to know that the information we have is not planted, false or a product of deception.

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

It was the first time I had suspected that the government would ever do such a thing. Believe me, reader, it shook me. I had always been brought up carefully to believe that, in government, truth, decency and honor were inseparable.

The best guarantee of integrity is to ensure that only decent men, men like Royal Officer Jettero Heller, have authority.

A man is known by the company who he keeps

there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A

Pray in church and sin at home.

Remember that we have no more faith at any time than we have in the hour of trial. All that will not bear to be tested is mere carnal confidence. Fair-weather faith is no faith. C. H. SPURGEON

The serious writer must take serious vows....a vow of silence, except through his work. A vow of consistency, sticking with writing to the exclusion of other fields. A vow of ego-chastity, abstaining from adulation. A vow of self-regard, placing the self as writer before the self as personality.

Opt for a few at your side, but ensure your honor and respect of all.

People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

The true good deeds are performed in silence.

I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.

Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.

Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you. Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.

I, Cassie, swear not to betray my trust..." she whispered, and watched her own blood trickle off the side of her hand. "Not by word, or look, or deed, waking or sleeping, by speech or by silence..." She repeated it in a whisper. "... in this land or any other. If I do, may fire burn me, air smother me, earth swallow me, and water cover my grave.

All confidence is dangerous unless it is complete; there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all.

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.