Quotes About Integrity

I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She

Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Yo desconfío de un hombre que dice basta cuando le están sirviendo de beber. Pues si ha de tener cuidado de no beber demasiado, esto indica que no es de fiar cuando lo hace

Morelli shook his battered head. "I don't apologize for what I do—people've got to take it or leave it—but I don't mind telling you I'm sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain't bothering you much and if there's anything I can do to square it I—

Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Don't let your mouth write cheques that your talent can't cash.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

Be Strong, Be brave, Be True. Endure

A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can't count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us upright. They hold up everyone and everything

Porque soy imbécil y porque recibí demasiadas lecciones de hombres y mujeres buenos provistos de rígidos códigos morales, hallo mis fuerzas en la afirmación de lo que es correcto. Esto pocas veces me ha servido de nada en situaciones como esta.

I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.

But how many people will? How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking? The answer is few.

My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.

For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people. Or at least they weren't predatory and vengeful.

Los secretos son mentiras. Compartir es querer. La privacidad es un robo.

But if the customer knows that five dollars is the actual price that cup of coffee should be—the correct price to ensure that everyone involved in bringing that cup of coffee into existence is being treated humanely and given a chance to live with dignity—would that customer balk or step up?

Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one. Christ said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price. Only disaster can result.

the media truly is a cabal of hyperpartisan, habitual liars who are destroying an entire industry from within.

Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.