Quotes About Integrity

I love Jim Tressel. I think he's a fabulous guy. He's overall been a strong example for all coaches.

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

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.

It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

Truth without love doesn't work. Some people use the truth like a weapon. They don't tell the truth; they aim it. The truth sometimes hurts, but it doesn't have to maim, kill, or destroy. As

Virtus, the quality of a vir, was the ultimate Roman ideal, that lustrous fusion of energy and courage which the Romans themselves identified as their chiefest strength.

Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]

to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.