Quotes About Integrity

A Cleaner knows when to walk away, and which direction to walk. Never running, always walking; he leaves smoothly and on his own terms.

There are usually three reasons that promises aren't kept: They are forgotten, abandoned, or undervalued.

I believe that the most important new trend in business is the downfall of the barracudas, sharks, and piranhas, and the ascendancy of nice, smart people—because they are what I call lovecats.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."77

Think of your promise-keeping tendency as the storage tank for your rocket fuel—your sense of confidence. When you keep your commitments, you maintain your sense of integrity and self-respect and see yourself as a person who can be trusted. This will prevent any leakage of confidence from little quit-defeats. It will also keep you from receiving negative feedback like "we can't depend on you" or "you lack execution skills.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its performance.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Never criticize people who are not present to defend or explain themselves. And never predict that another person will experience failure.

There are right ways and wrong ways to give. In most cases, the difference lies in the motivation behind it. Always scrutinize the why behind the what.

Napoleon Hill observed many successful men during his research for Think and Grow Rich. All of them had a strong self-image that was protected by a track record of keeping their commitments, even when doing so required herculean efforts.

Your subconscious will always remember if you kept your word, and because your self-image is important, that's one audience you need to satisfy.

Because trust earned by action is always better than words.

Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.

A leader who is successful at work but a failure at home is not a successful leader.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

Hey, you're here," I say, catching my breath. "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she said that to the people who screwed her over somehow. "No," I say. "It's not all right. But I couldn't help it.

Sometimes you have to choose between honesty and kindness, and I've always been a sucker for the kind side.

When I honor, I don't keep track of it. I don't save it for later as a leverage point to get the other person to honor me. I do it because the behavior is consistent with the person I want to be.

Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser

It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character 'consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will' (XXV 1174).

They didn't hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.

The black man that sympathized, worked and fought for this great country of ours during its threatened destruction is a thousand times better than the white man that sympathized, worked, plotted and fought against it