Quotes About Integrity

it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.

So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the other thousands of rooms like this one today and tomorrow and next week will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

And older still, he might have divined the true reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father's being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity.

At least this will be my chance to find out if I am what I think I am or if I just hope; if I am going to do what I have taught myself is right or if I am just going to wish I were.

There remains yet something of honor and pride, of life.

Quién pagaría una buena cantidad por una virginidad que no puede violar más tarde, aunque solo fuera para asegurarse de que era auténtica?

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.

Y son los buenos los que no pueden rechazar la cuenta cuando se la presentan. Por la sencilla razón de que les pueden obligar a pagarla

Because there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat and stored the fruit of his sweat into.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.

Anyway, there is a certain integral consistency which, whether it be right or wrong, a man must cherish because it alone will ever permit him to die.

Pero no comprende que quizá un hombre pueda hacer algo únicamente porque sabe que está bien, porque la armonía de las cosas exige que se haga?.

Then there is the human factor. As a variation on the old maxim has it, "Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit.

Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit." When

I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.

do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.

Sincerity becomes the honesty of people who cannot be honest with themselves.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

She looked at him fondly. You won't never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.

Is that why he didn't stay?" "No. He left because I no longer wanted to be in partnership with him." "You didn't? I mean, you don't?" "No." "Why?" "Because he pretends to be better at what he does than he is. I prefer people who are better at what they do than they think they are.