Quotes About Integrity

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

I'm begging you, Taz, don't die a hero with no cause.

I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité...

It doesn't matter if there's a handful of you against many of them. Once you've seen that a cause is right, you're obliged to fight for it. Whether you ever live to see success, or the person who steps into your shoes does, it doesn't matter.

Nobody forced me to speak. Nobody? Ah yes, alcohol had made me do it. When once I had understood, when once I had realised to the full, what a liar alcohol is, and what liars it makes of honest men, I swore never to touch another drop and even to give up my occasional glass of beer. But what are resolutions, what are plans?

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is a simulation of strength.

A la inmodestia de su objetivo, que se extravía tanto en lo ecológico como en lo antropológico (comprobable lo primero y filosóficamente mostrable lo segundo), el principio de responsabilidad contrapone una tarea más modesta, decretada por el temor y el respeto: preservar la permanente ambigüedad de la libertad del hombre, que ningún cambio de circunstancias puede jamás abolir, preservar la integridad de su mundo y de su esencia frente a los abusos

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

Shortcuts to love tend to be the fast route to long-term troubles.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Sir William Haley, one of my predecessors as editor of the Times, said, "There are things which are bad and false and ugly and no amount of specious casuistry will make them good or true or beautiful.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character. By itself, competence is meaningless without character and good judgment. If

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.