Quotes About Integrity

His brain … he thinks with his big, ole, egotistical wiener. All guys do. It leads Brax Jenkins around like a magical porn radar wand. It has now honed in on your virginal hands-off hootchie cootchie. Guard it well, chica. He'll snatch it right out from under you like a fucking bandito if you don't.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.

The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. 'That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you'd die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?' To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile. A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity.

Each man is his own poem, Levi. Keep yours a good one.

Ourika, beware; sometimes reserve leads to duplicity.

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

Without honesty we can build nothing at all. Trust rests upon honesty's foundation, as does affection and even love.

Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.

I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings.

he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

Where there's a secret,' she says, 'there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents' clout.

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

It's the people on the inside who say, "Yes, we are Christians," and then live as though Christ had never lived.

My child, I've given you my name. Don't take it in vain. Keep it clean. Let it mean something when you are called a Christian. Don't let my name fall into disrepute because of you.

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.