Quotes About Integrity

Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes?

There is growing evidence that fundamental ethical stances in life stem from underlying emotional capacities

What you are about, is more important than who you are

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right.

Money is the consequence of doing the right things.

Acting the moralist serves nothing. Each case is unique.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect.

Un Jedi temeroso de combatir la injusticia no es un Jedi

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her.

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.

Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts.

I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never belonged to any camp and have no friends in the industry. Most of them will pay lip service, but when it comes to doing, they tend to shy away.

I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

True nobility is exempt from fear.