Quotes About Integrity

And yet isn't it true of all of us? That there are things we feel to be at the heart of our nature that are not borne out by the evidence around us, and so, to protect our delicate sense of integrity, we elect, however unconsciously, to see the world other than the way it really is? And sometimes it leads to transcendence, and sometimes it leads to the unconscionable.

There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

it is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.

Those who do the right thing don't do it simply because of how they feel: the decision has to be based on reason, reason that tells you what your duty is, regardless of how you happen to feel.

tevazu, utangaçl?k ile utanmazl?k aras?nda durur

If now isn't a good time for the truth, I don't see when we'll get to it.

Poems have serious business to do They need to bring down presidents who Start wars they themselves wouldn't go to

There are things. . . that should not be touched: Books when your hands are sticky with chocolate Cars when your clothes are covered with oil Men when your heart does not love them

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

A friend tells you the truth, that your breath stinks and you need a bath. An enemy tells you that you look great and you shouldn't change a thing.

I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.

It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today.

you, pious milktoast: you don't murder, steal or commit adultery—because you are afraid. All your virtues are daughters of fear.

Pentru c? se face treaba pe jum?tate, îmi spunea el uneori, c?-ÅŸi spun oamenii oful pe jum?tate, c?-s p?c?toÅŸi sau cinstiÅ£i pe jum?tate, de-aia e lumea în starea jalnic? în care e acum. Mergi pân? la cap?t, loveÅŸte cu putere, nu-Å£i fie team?, ÅŸi vei birui. Bunului Dumnezeu îi e de-o sut? de ori mai scârb? de-o jum?tate de drac decât de-un drac ÅŸi jum?tate!

Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.

yo creo que todos los movimientos, todas las grandes organizaciones, de este mundo, son mentiras y ganancias para alguien. Yo lo que creo es que la gente deberia causar el menor daño posible a los demas seres humanos

We feel free to criticize otherwise-honest police officers who protect crooked cops because of their Blue Code. But we have our White Code. It allows some doctors to get away with clinical shoddiness and bad medicine, and I say to hell with it.

imposible encontrar a doce hombres, honrados

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.