Quotes About Integrity

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

One does one's best - Silk

As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I'm seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.

You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's built into you to do it right, so don't worry about it. That's all very well for you to say, Mistress, Pol, he replied, but if you don't mind, I will worry about it just a bit--privately of course.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend—he had told the truth about him.

It's always best in the long run to be what you are. It isn't proper to behave as if you were more, but it isn't good to behave as if you were less, either. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

Live every moment—no matter where you are and what you're doing—as if it were truly important... you must strive to be in a good place—a place of purpose and integrity... Life is short under any circumstance and in some cases it can be plucked away at a moment's notice.

Second, the Church itself is going to have to become more authentic morally, for the greatness of the Gospel is now seen to have become quite trivial and inconsequential in its life. If the Gospel means so little to the Church, if it changes so little, why then should unbelievers believe it?

It is better that you die than that you put a stain upon your soul.

And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.

You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment.

It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they've just got to believe you're an idiot.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere non pussunt nefas est

That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.

He took zero in the way of shit

He makes a reference to candor and its value.

Le domande più brutali sono quelle che ti costringono a mentire

Die Integrität meines Schlafs ist für alle Zeit kompromittiert, Sir.

That what unlocks you, even today, is what you want to want. In what you value. And what you value's married to those certain things you just won't do . And here's a cliché that's earned its status as a cliché: whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars.