Quotes About Integrity

She was at the valiant age when we burn to right wrongs and succour the oppressed

a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.

He was rigidly truthful, where the issue concerned only himself. Where it was a case of saving a friend, he was prepared to act in a manner reminiscent of an American expert witness.

He's only got two sides, a bad side and a worse side

I was as limpid as dammit.

there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

There, my boy, he said. It's awfully kind of you, Mr. Windlebird. My dear boy, don't mention it. If you're satisfied, I'm sure I am. Mr. Windlebird always spoke the truth when he could. He spoke it now.

what is a pleasant voice if the soul be vile?

No Adonis to begin with, he had been so edited and re-edited during a long and prosperous ring career by the gloved fists of a hundred foes that in affairs of the heart he was obliged to rely exclusively on moral worth and charm of manner.

Conscia mens recti, nec si sinit esse dolorem Sed revocare gradum.

You must never, never subordinate your hero

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The main thing is: Don't take any shit. That's the main thing. The unmain thing is: You are not going to figure anything out except how to get other people to take shit, so forget about everything except not taking any yourself.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

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He fitted the Vedic definition of a man of God: "Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace

Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.

Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake." There

Mas suave que la flor, cuando se trata de amabilidad; mas potente que el rayo, cuando los pricipios estàn en juego.

Throughout the ages the ideal of satya (truth) has permeated Hindu society. Marco Polo tells us that the Brahmins "would not utter a lie for anything on earth." An English judge in India, William Sleeman, says in his Journey Through Oudh in 1849–50: "I have had before me hundreds of cases in which a man's property, liberty, or life depended on his telling a lie; and he has refused to tell it.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable." Master

for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched.