Quotes About Integrity

Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life, its purposes, and the happiness and well-being of others.

I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.

Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society.

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Within us is something of divinity. One who has this knowledge and permits it to influence his life will not stoop to do a mean or cheap or tawdry thing.

Is this old-fashioned? Of course it is. It is as old as truth itself.

To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.

Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it stinks ! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!

character doesn't always result in the kind of success one wants.

every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.

Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So, tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.

Draft beer, not people.

Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.