Quotes About Integrity

The lie deceives no one so much as the one who tells it.

Yuan could not for his life say, "This man is rich and evil, and this man is poor and good," and so he was spoiled for any cause-making, however great the cause.

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

Some do it for a good deed for the future, that by saving lives they may get merit in heaven, and some do it for righteousness that men may speak well of them. Nevertheless it is a good deed for whatever reason, and some must do it out of a good heart.

Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.

A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhicitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole.

Booker T. Washington was right when he said, "Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him.

But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.