Quotes About Integrity

nyingje, which literally means "noble heart.

Be courageous enough to be honest.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Never believe the wicked though they are sweet tongued. The honey is only in the tip of their tongue–the heart is full of venom.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

I don't like it when the inside parts of you don't match up with what the brain part of you thinks. If there were a medicine to make this go away I would take it, even if it was cherry flavor, which tastes terrible and is not my favorite.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

I would rather be ruled by people who think they're going to fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I'm merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.

The choices we make, make us. We

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Ethics is a dream.