Quotes About Integrity

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. 865

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?

Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.

Papa's not afraid of anything and I'll bust you in two halves if you say so." He jerked off his cap and hurled it to the ground. Text rolled his eyes until the whites showed. He had never seen Lon angry before, but he wasn't afraid. "Then how come your Paw didn't whup Mister Eben when Mister Eben kicked his dawg about two years ago?

the less you know the less lies you will tell

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol, 1774

those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world.

But besides all that, he was a man one simply didn't make mistakes about—to see him once was to know him always.

He felt that it would not be fair to hang on if he could not decently do his job. Besides, he would not sever himself completely. He would take rooms across the road, with the excellent Mrs. Wickett who had once been linen-room maid; he could visit the School whenever he wanted, and could still, in a sense, remain a part of it.

If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

I believe that people are more good than bad. But at the end of the day, if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, the world gets a little better each day