Quotes About Integrity

Choosing to please [God] more than anyone else guarantees that occasionally you will make other people unhappy, including family and friends.

Solomon, in Proverbs, states that "true love cares enough to confront" and that "better is open rebuke than hidden love" (27:5).

Jesus had a forceful and firm side. If he knew he was doing God's will, he didn't care if his words or actions made people mad.

Absorb blows with equanimity. That's what anthropologist David Gilmore says is at the heart of being male, and man, does that take courage. It means we defend others without giving into hatred, disdain, or contempt. And it means that we defend our own God-given value and importance without succumbing to an eye-for-an-eye or tooth-for-a-tooth. We don't seek revenge even when we easily can.

As courageous Christian men, we're going to suffer. There's no way around it, because suffering is choosing difficulty when you could escape it. To be male is to stand in gaps you could flee, but if you did, others would be more than hurt. They would be harmed. And when we become Gap People, a goal of Promise Keepers, we move away from nice and into the good.

Theodore Roosevelt saw in the Christian men of his day, who "were very nice, very refined, who shook their heads over political corruption and discussed it in drawing rooms and parlors, but who were wholly unable to grapple with real men in real life.

what we call valorous niceness is often cowardly and sinful passivity in disguise.

he is afraid of being falsely accused. Worried that if he looks afraid people will think he is a liar, he may try to conceal his fear so that

About half of the 4,700 McDonald's fast food outlets, for example, give a polygraph test for preemployment screening.7

glory and accomplishment are of far less importance than the creation of character and the individual good life.

To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.

Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself, not at odds with it.

He desired to become the man he was impersonating.

if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Once you're allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it.

Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel .

I've been ridiculed by silk-suited lawyers, jailed by ornery judges, and occasionally paid for services rendered. I never intended to be a hero, and I succeeded.

A good lawyer is part con man, part priest -- promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?

In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

I was just being honest and descriptive." "No, you were being an asshole." "It's not my fault they have to always be the same thing.

Take the time to first figure out why you want to teach. Is it to bolster your ego to feel important and have people sit back in awe of your stunning presence? Or, does it look to be an easy road and steady paycheck? Either of these reasons does nothing for the teaching profession, let alone your ego.

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