Quotes About Integrity

Before she left, she said, "Just remember one thing: Going along with something doesn't mean you give in to it.[...]

How nice it feels to be good," she thought quietly.

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

Repeat after me,' said Moomintroll, "may the ground swallow me up may old hags rattle my dry bones, and may I never more eat ice-cream if I don't guard this secret with my life." Go on now.

Det var en som kom til mamma og sa: "Deres datter er usedvanlig, hun snakker aldri stygt om noen." Jeg husker det, jeg husker det helt tydelig. Men hvorfor? Stolte jeg på dem? Eller var det bare et spørsmål om å tilgi?

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

Let me get this straight. You didn't feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?" -Marin

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

If what others said or did lined up with God's Word, then that was the first test. The second was in motives. Watching a person's actions and seeing what was most important to them and their desired end result would help her judge their motives. People who were truly determined to give of themselves and be servants of God would always do so in such a way that was never to their own glory.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

But what if I were another kind of man? What if I were the sort to have taken advantage of our unusual situation? You must realize, Miss Amberley, that had I wished, I might have done almost anything to you by now." A startled laugh escaped her lips. "Are you saying you might have murdered me in my bed? Do not be ridiculous, my lord." "I wasn't thinking about murder, but beds would definitely have been involved.

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

It means committing yourself to continuously act consistent with the possibility you declared, from the moment the declaration is spoken, regardless of the circumstances.

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

People will forgive a penitent enemy before they forgive a professed friend.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

BARBARA: Right. (Beat) You've known about Daddy and Mattie Fae all these years. VIOLET: Oh, sure. I never told them I knew. But your father knew. He knew I knew. He always knew I knew. But we never talked about it. I chose the higher ground.