Quotes About Integrity

Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans

Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Loyalty has its roots in respects, and respect is the fruit of Love.

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities...

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The humility of a warrior is not the same humility as that of a servile man. The warrior does not lower his head to anyone, and nor does he allow anyone to bow before him. The servile man, on the other hand, kneels before anyone he believes to be more powerful, and demands that the people under his command behave in a similar fashion before him.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

A man's message of Faith lies in the way he lives his life and not in the words he says.

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Because a lie can never make you stronger, no matter how many times you tell it.

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.