Quotes About Integrity

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses (Proverbs 27:6).

Those who said they would do so only in return for a greased palm, got a little money.

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

I am not Undine for Undine or the Little Mermaid sold her glory for feet. Undine (or the Little Mermaid) couldn't speak after she sold her glory. I will not sell my glory.

Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

Only think, speak, and act on that which you want to be true

Remember, the only way to bring about the greater good, is to be the greater good.

Right living is the best way to eliminate suffering

The truth is always the truth

Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?

In short, he must be loyal only to his art.

We tarnish the luster of our most beautiful actions when we applaud them ourselves.

The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

bland composite" of the congregation's "congenial, ever helpful, ever ready to help boy scout; as the darling of the old ladies and as sufficiently reserved with the young ones; as the father image for the young people and a companion to lonely men; as the affable glad-hander at teas and civic club luncheons."1 If that description pictures reality at all, preachers may be liked, but they will certainly not be respected.

Why do children lie? Sometimes they lie because they are not allowed to tell the truth. Four-year-old

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man's good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Our judgments always have behind them a quality of righteousness.