Quotes About Integrity

And being honest at every level is really the most effective habit of all if you want to have massive success.

Honesty is the only way to make money in today's world. Nobody

The way to get easy money is to have the most noble character trait of all: being risk averse.

If a piece of writing is not hard, it's weak. It's not worth writing. It's not worth sharing. If it's not hard, it's soft. If you can't BLEED or KILL or SLASH YOUR GUTS with your word, then keep it to yourself.

Say what you want and why. Negotiation equals authenticity.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you. You can trust that the way you are is fine, that your honesty is what attracts others to you, and that your truth is what lights your internal fire.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours.

Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.

Always over-promise and over-deliver. Sometimes people hate that. They want to under promise and over deliver. Don't do that

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I guess it takes a holy man to make a girl a real whore.

consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. That's the only advice you can give anybody. And it's not advice, it's an observation.

I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

It's very hard to live with that,' said Eric. 'I mean, with the sense that one is never what one seems—never—and yet, what one seems to be is probably, in some sense, almost exactly what one is.

The effort not to know what one knows is the most corrupting effort one can make—

To find out, to find out, you keep saying, as though we were accomplices in a crime. We have not committed any crime.