Quotes About Integrity

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.