Quotes About Integrity

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete; The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

No specification is necessary—to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it for ever.

Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology.

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

The great poets are to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and by the justification of perfect personal candor. All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Der gesamte Bereich der Echtheit entzieht sich der technischen – und natürlich nicht nur der technischen – Reproduzierbarkeit.

The righteous one is an advocate for creatures and at the same time their highest embodiment.

Of Honor without Fame/Of Greatness without Splendor/Of Dignity without Pay);

As long as I shall live I shall always be My Self-and no other, Just Me.

I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it.

We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song.

You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully.

He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.