Quotes About Integrity

was not kind to people who place principles before practicality.

Remain true to yourself—and to your heart. Be courageous and remember, even the blackest night must end in dawn.

Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan. -Duryodana

If a person says that he can handle a certain task, he should fulfill it. Not to do so is sign of irresponsibility or lack of reliability.

Come, let me know whether thou art a creature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.

Ensi tote nuit se degenglent Cil qui de mal dire s'estrenglent, Mes tex dit sovant mal d'autrui Qui est molt pires de celui Que il blasme et que il despit.

Companies are full of bureaucracy, procedures, and approval processes, a structure designed to defend the integrity of the organization. Communities, on the other hand, form around shared interests and needs, and have no more process than they require. The community exists for the project, not to support the company in which the project resides.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Fidelity is a natural extension of trust and honesty;

Well, that's because trust without honesty is blind trust, and blind trust is never wise.

seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, but he was from a different generation. He sacrificed himself by holding the door while ordering his students to escape through the windows. He understood the responsibilities of leadership — the leader, like the captain of a ship, saves himself last.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

Good people don't rush in to do evil where angels fear to tread; instead, they start by straying only a small way away from their moral center, and each successive step down is hardly different, barely noticeable, until it is too late and their behavior is shocking and may even be…awful.

We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?