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Quotes About Integrity

Strategic and coy are for jackasses.
~ Cheryl Strayed
We are here to build the house. It's our work, our job, the most important gig of all: to make a place that belongs to us, a structure composed of our own moral code. Not the code that only echoes imposed cultural values, but the one that tells us on a visceral level what to do. You know what's right for you and what's wrong for you.
~ Cheryl Strayed
What are your spiritual beliefs? I do not believe in God as most people conceive of God, but I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us. I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Each and every one of those people rose at a moment in their lives - one that is very much like this moment in your life, "suffocated" and at that moment they chose to tell the truth about themselves instead of staying "safe" inside the lie.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.
~ Cheryl Strayed
What you've got left after all the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts.
~ Cheryl Strayed
She'd kept the secret sealed so tightly inside her for so long it could not be extracted without altering who she was, she realized now. The secret was not separate from her. In the telling of it, she'd come undone.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.
~ Chester A. Arthur
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
~ Chester William Nimitz
If I hadn't stopped that guy, everybody woulda just let him go. Nobody wants to put their ass on the line for anything, you know?
~ Chet Williamson
Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
~ Chetan Bhagat
If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At
~ Chetan Bhagat
Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well.
~ Chetan Bhagat
World is full of nice people,if u cannot find one be one !
~ Chetan Bhagat
Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.
~ Chetan Bhagat
They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her.
~ Chetan Bhagat
We think cheating, in reasonable amounts, is okay. These
~ Chetan Bhagat
Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The
~ Chetan Bhagat
If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And
~ Chetan Bhagat
Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Yes, honesty pays but only if all of society is honest. If only you are honest, but everyone else is not, you will suffer. This is the bottleneck obstructing change in India today. We all want to be honest, but we don't want to be the only one honest, for then we will suffer. This paradox prevents change.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Values cannot be unpredictable; they are consistent, even in volatile times. Indian
~ Chetan Bhagat
Live with dignity. Live for others, that is how one earns respect
~ Chetan Bhagat