Quotes About Integrity

Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.

How dare you use Rachel to stop me?" he growled. "I'm using the truth, Master Bruce. Maybe it's time we all stopped trying to outsmart the truth, and just let it have its day.

The new breed of reporter doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't have sex beyond reproducing, and most importantly—doesn't believe. They don't believe they are there to question everything. They are there to print whatever is told to them. The news is dead, my friend. Buried under a mountain of full color advertising, and six-digit deposit slips.

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

You'll never stop changing, but that doesn't mean you have to drift in the wind. Every day, you can take the person you've been, and the new things you've witnessed, and make your own, honest choice as to who you should become. "Whatever happens, you can always be true to yourself. But don't expect to end up with the same inner compass as anyone else. Not unless they started beside you, and climbed beside you every step of the way.

If you want to make it human, make it whole.

Our words-backed with action-have the power to heal.

For a moment, you won't be certain what you've done. What you've done is this: You have done the best you could. On the darkest of pathways, you have managed to stay true to the better angel of your nature.

You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

It should go without saying that any cause is better served by doing something well than by doing it badly... In fact, it is better to do nothing for the cause at all than to do something that reflects badly on it... So the first principle of responsible activism should not be "Do something." Instead, one should take a page from medical ethics and "First, do no harm." (Harm to the cause, that is.)

each individual should do his duty, regardless of consequences. We know the right thing to do, but we do not know the consequences of doing the right thing. Thus one should act according to knowledge of duty, not conjectures about consequences. One should do one's duty to the utmost and let the, gods sort out the results. And I believed that my duty is to fight That is the ethic of a movement that can save the world.

Don't trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The 'why' of a thing—that's the foundation.

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Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: "Let God be found true, but every man a liar.

As Paddy Murray wrote in the Evening Herald: "It didn't even rain. It wouldn't have dared. They don't call Bruce Springsteen the Boss for nothing.

hey be ur own heck of a person, and dont copy what other people do or say. cause then it just makes u look really bad, then that person who u copyied will get mad at u. so grow up a little

Victory is sweet, but how you handle yourself in defeat is often more telling.

The IRS received the following note: "Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find a check for $150. I cheated on my income tax return last year and have not been able to sleep ever since. If I still have trouble sleeping I will send you the rest.

I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who insists on real investigative reporting–inside documents, inside sources, hard knife-in-the-gut evidence–detective-style reporting that is just about illegal in the U.S.A. Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot.

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong.

Blood in, blood out. You kill to get in. They kill you before they will ever let you leave.

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

each of us is whole and complete unto ourselves.