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Quotes About Integrity

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
~ Charles Manson
What do you want in a woman, in life?' I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to describe one another in a few simple words: El es muy bueno para cabalgar el rio. Meaning, 'He'll do to ride the river with.' In Texan, it means, 'I'd trust him with my life.' I scratched my head. 'I want someone to ride the river with.
~ Charles Martin
when it comes to the truth, people have a right to know it. Always. No matter how much you think it might hurt, the truth is the only thing that both cuts us free and holds us tight.
~ Charles Martin
But if you start making money at the expense of why you do what you do, or why you were given this gift in the first place, then you need to ask yourself how badly you want that money. In the end, the cost might be more than you can pay.
~ Charles Martin
You can buy that lie if you want, but if you're working for a bank, you don't study the counterfeit to know the real thing. You study the real thing to know the counterfeit.
~ Charles Martin
the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.
~ Charles Martin
By your words you'll be acquitted, and by your words you'll be condemned.
~ Charles Martin
trust is built over time and
~ Charles Martin
Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.
~ Charles Martin
every man has a basement. Some lay dark. Unlit. Concealed. Others sprawl like airport runways for all the world to see. The difference is determined by whether he is hiding something or digging it up. Hammer or shovel says much about a man. [Murphy Shepherd']
~ Charles Martin
We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We
~ Charles Martin
The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.
~ Charles Martin
But, like the man in the song, Alfred Roberts did well by doing good. The shop prospered.
~ Charles Moore
How we feel, think, speak and/or act is what matters in life.--
~ Charles Morgan
Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences—you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.
~ Charles Murray
If I'm wrong, and you find yourself in an organization where sucking up is in fact a good way to get ahead, look for a new job. It's not a quality organization after all, no matter how glittering its public reputation may be. Life is too short to work there.
~ Charles Murray
Try hard. Be true. Enjoy. Godspeed.
~ Charles Murray
Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This
~ Charles Murray
I was as hurt by this as if I were engaged in some honest occupation. There is nothing surprising about this. Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.
~ Charles Neider
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
~ Charles Peguy
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
~ Charles Peguy
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
~ Charles Pierce
Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.
~ Charles Portis
Watch it now. You're taking liberties. Don't make things any worse than they are. Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.
~ Charles Portis