Quotes About Integrity

Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University. 'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me

We need a new universal moral code.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is to keep secrets. They always come out in the end, and it is the unspoken that causes the most problems.

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself.

People show themselves not by what they say but by what they do.

trust a man who doesn't like children or animals

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.

The point is, you have a choice, and you do the right thing; you don't act on it.

Gabby thinks of all the times she and her friends have discussed people who have been caught having affairs. None of the them have ever understood it. Just because you're married doesn't mean you'll never been attracted to anyone else, Gabby has always said. But the point is that you have a choice, and you should choose to do the right thing; you shouldn't act on your attraction.

Jacobs never relished the role of prophet, but at the end of her life she hazarded two related but opposite guesses. One path was what she called, in Dark Age Ahead, "cultural collapse." Jacobs found evidence of imminent decline in the erosion of family, community, science, education, governance, and professional integrity in North America.

When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

You have to trust your own abilities, and not doubt them because someone else does. If we do carry out our present plans, you'll have to hold your own sense of integrity in the face of skepticism

What you saw was what you got, and she did not believe, as some of the other girls said, that the boys at the parties were separate from some sober incarnation of the same boys.

He trusted only Devers, and why was that? Devers said, "We're going here," and they went there. Devers said, "Expect this and that," and this and that came to pass. But the rumor was that Ike didn't like Devers, and Frank figured this was the reason—Devers didn't have his head up his ass, and everyone else did.

us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.

Yo admiraba esa férrea disciplina que le permitía centrarse en escribir una novela sobre Alaska por la mañana y un libro sobre la Casa Blanca por la tarde, así que, en cierto modo, también admiré el hecho de que mantuviese su palabra y no volviese a hablarme nunca más.

A name, Mag thought, is but a tag. A man may be born with one name, achieve another. Honor and power come from the heart.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ...but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still...

This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe. Ranger

You know what your problem is? You got too many scruples. One or two is okay, but you get too many of them, and it clogs everything up. What she said made no sense at all, but was probably right. I got some scruples, Lula said, but I know when to stop. There's a point where you have to say enough is enough and screw scruples.

You don't wear responsibility like clothes. You can't take it off and put it on when you feel like. You wear responsibility on the inside, and it isn't that easy to remove. You have to learn how to live with it.

The law is for people who have nothing to hide.