Quotes About Integrity

Always resemble yourself.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [ The New Statesman , February 25, 1933]

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

they want to do the right thing. Just make sure they know you want them to do the right thing.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked to appeal to him. It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.

There was about him a candour, and gentleness, which made the women trust him. He understood.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying. But what is bullying? It is a desire to superimpose my own will upon another person. Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them. I embrace for example an ideal, and[59] I seek to enact this ideal in the person of another. This is ideal bullying.

The ancients thought it shameful to seek advancement or want to be the head of something, or the chief or senior.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

As one person always said Good things come to those who wait. You don't have to be connivingly sneaky and passing judgement if one don't use protection, so you can have your fantasies. If you do others right, the lord will bless right judgements and knowledge.

Money, fame, class, and titles are just symbols, or opportunities, for making a difference. Real power means enhancing the greater good, and your feelings of power will direct you to the exact way you are best equipped to do this.

Nobody kicks a dead dog

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.

If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can't radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return – if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

A great man shows his greatness," said Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Experience has taught me," says Sam Wood, "that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren't.

Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.