Quotes About Integrity

El señor Lorry conocía bastante el mundo para saber que ningún servicio es mejor que el hecho por amor, y que no está inspirado en ningún interés mercenario, y por esta razón sentía tal respeto por la señorita Pross, que la consideraba mucho más cerca de los ángeles que a muchas de las damas favorecidas por la belleza y el arte y que tenían grandes sumas depositadas en las cajas del Banco Tellson.

Pip, escutes o que vai dizer-te um amigo verdadeiro, pois é aquilo que um amigo verdadeiro diz: se não conseguires ser incomum agindo de modo correto, não conseguirás ser incomum agindo com desonestidade. Por isso, não mintas mais, Pip, e vive bem, e morre feliz.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.

Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

He occupied rooms in the Bank, in his fidelity to the House of which he had grown to be a part, lie strong root-ivy. it chanced that they derived a kind of security from the patriotic occupation of the main building, but the true-hearted old gentleman never calculated about that. All such circumstances were indifferent to him, so that he did his duty. On

Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire;

If they can't make me innocent out of the whole truth, they are not likely to do it out of anything less, or anything else.

To the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.

Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care. Mr. Mell was ill-used. 'Who has ill-used him, you girl?' said Steerforth. 'Why, you have,' returned Traddles. 'What have I done?' said Steerforth. 'What have you done?' retorted Traddles. 'Hurt his feelings, and lost him his situation.

Bè, naturalmente non è l'uomo adatto.... poiché l'uomo che ha un incarico di fiducia non è mai l'uomo adatto

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.

we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.

It seems as if we can't go right, or do right, or be righted

captain said and did was honestly according to his nature;

that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.