Quotes About Integrity

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

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That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

Would it have done any good? No sir. But that dont make it right.

every act which has no heart will be found out in the end. Every gesture.

You didnt slack up on him just the littlest bit? No. I dont believe in it.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.

it might be well to remind ourselves that you cant misrepresent what has yet to occur.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness … you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity … believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

And when you love people, you hate the fact that they're being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the people given that, in the end, they basically gave it to you, because we are who we are because somebody loved us anyway.

Lady Cora,' he said, 'sometimes one has to do things which are unpalatable. When great issues are involved one can't toy with the situation in silk gloves. No. We are making history.' Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.

T]hat little voice shut up the instant I did something. And not just something: the exact thing I knew to be right. Because if the system was broken, if Carrie Johnstone wasn't going to ever pay consequences for her action, it wasn't because "the system" failed to get her. It was because people like me chose not to act when we could. The system was people, and I was part of it, part of its problems, and I was going to be part of the solution from now on.

Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint." He swallowed. "No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn't just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.

Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.

He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was how good people did shitty things: one tiny rotten compromise at a time. Well, he wasn't going to go there.

The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.

That's the walkaway dilemma. If you take without giving, you're a mooch. If you keep track of everyone else's taking and giving, you're a creep scorekeeper. It's our version of Christian guilt—it's impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.

The gentleman that succeeded Mr. Endicot was Mr. Richard Bellingham, one who was bred a lawyer, and one who lived beyond eighty, well esteemed for his laudable qualities, but as the Thebans made the statues of their magistrates without hands, importing that they must be no takers;