Quotes About Integrity

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.

But is that not corruption, Jack? You were always very much against corruption when you were young, I mean younger.' 'So I am still: corruption in others is anathema to me. But you would scarcely credit the depths of turpitude I should descend to myself for a thousand a year;

I have noticed that some old men lose their sense of honour, and will cheerfully avow the strangest acts.

Jack broke off. He had seen a very great deal of drunkenness in the Navy; drunken admirals, post-captains, commanders, drunken ship's boys ten years old, and he had been trundled aboard on a wheelbarrow himself before now; but he disliked it on duty – he disliked it very much indeed, above all at such an hour in the morning.

You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all—given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

A possible explanation may be this: in addition to professional competence, cheerful resignation, an excellent liver, natural authority and a hundred other virtues, there must be the far rarer quality of resisting the effects, the dehumanising effects, of the exercise of authority. Authority is a solvent of humanity: look

I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee." -Stephen Maturin, The Reverse of the Medal

Now listen, Jack, will you? I am somewhat given to lying: my occasions require it from time to time. But I do not choose to have any man alive tell me of it.

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

He was conscientious, he did his duty as he understood it; but he was no seaman.

Perhaps I am no great judge of what is honourable, sir,' said Dillon. 'I speak as a mere fighting man.

Think of the firearms makers you wouldn't buy from, based on what you've "heard" about their product.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Honesty and integrity are a "given" in most organizations, rarely tested on any but the most superficial levels.

it seems that he didn't want a world turned to mud. He believed in a soul.

You are free to say no to an unfair, disrespectful, or dishonest request for your time, talent, or treasure, without an apology or long explanation on your part.

Goodness deliberately chooses to do the right thing and firmly resists what is wrong. Merely avoiding bad things doesn't make women good.

If you aren't offending someone occasionally by speaking the truth at work, you are likely too wishy-washy and are coming across as lacking depth or backbone.

Physical courage is the type involved in overcoming the fear of physical injury or death in order to save others or oneself. Moral courage entails maintaining ethical integrity or authenticity at the risk of losing friends, employment, privacy, or prestige. Psychological courage includes that sort required to confront a debilitating illness or destructive habit or situation; it is the bravery inherent in facing one's inner demons.

Because Job loved and was honest with God, he was able to stay engaged in their relationship.

Even Jesus gave people a dose of Vitamin No sometimes.

Most nice people know what is bad in this world, and they feel horrible for those who are wounded and broken. But they don't have the guts to act in any meaningful way.

Courage without conscience," wrote Robert Green Ingersoll, "is a wild beast.