Quotes About Integrity

You can't let buffoons rule your life.

One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

It seems that the people who question me the most are the ones who've committed the most outlandish or atrocious acts.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

Everyone draws the line of what's acceptable just beneath what they're doing themselves.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

The nations that rank as the least corrupt—such countries as Finland, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and Singapore—are also the safest places in the world to drive.

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

There's nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. That's a difficult statement to live up to, but then I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

Honesty is the best image.

Character is something you do when no one else is watching.

Love doesn't justify your actions. Your actions justify your love.

Money talks . . . It says you're cheap.

Most people would rather take the easy road than the high road.