Quotes About Integrity

A worthy leader has the desire to serve, not to dominate.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

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

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." —Matthew 7:6 (Bible).

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions.

It took me a long time to understand that although everyone needs to be loved, I cannot be the source of that gift to everyone who asks me for it. There are some relationships which I am capable of love and others in which I am not. To pretend otherwise, to put out promissory notes I am unable to honor, is to damage my own integrity and that of the person in need - all in the name of love.

The wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy.

I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who'd learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect

Honor is the presence of God in man.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.

Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.

My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself.

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name. Anyway

La única palabra que describe la bondad es bondad, y no es bastante.

I've never trusted a man who put cream or sugar in his coffee. Just like I never really trusted a man who put Coca-Cola in his bourbon.

Our behavior may be the most critical factor used by others in their decision to "lend" trust to us, as our actions reflect our character. When we honor our commitments and do what we say we will do, others will be inclined to deposit their trust with us.