Quotes About Integrity

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

If you mess up, 'fess up.

I've never faked a sarcasm.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.

...the sexual organs show more character than the actors' faces... There are phalluses in porno whose distended veins speak of the integrity of the hardworking heart, but there is so little specific content in the faces! Hard core lulls after it excites, and finally it puts the brain to sleep.

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Be a stone spiral staircase in a world full of escalators.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to cross purpose.

Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist oder zu sein vermeinet, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert des Menschen.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.

Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

The man who will so dishonor a woman as to marry her when he bears her no love is, to my mind, not only unworthy of being a missionary of Jesus Christ, but also hardly worthy the name man, surely not gentleman

I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Thanks to J. K. Rowling's post-Deathly Hallows media existence, I'd like to add another quip to the pile of Potter wisdom: Don't ever trust half-baked gay characters.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

A palavra não foi feita para enfeitar, brilhar como ouro falso. A palavra foi feita para dizer.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.