Quotes About Integrity

Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.

For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

Winston Churchill once said, 'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

a follower tells, but a leader shows.

To break the chain of mistrust, someone has to go first. I am happy to make the move.

The earth is an indivisible whole, just as each of us is an indivisible whole.

It turns out that people can live very well with the situation where they make their case and yet another view is implemented, so long as the learning process is open and everyone acts with integrity.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

The discipline of personal mastery starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us, of living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

You can keep on assigning blame here, there and everywhere, but when it comes right down to it, we're responsible for what we do ourselves.

I've never been a good liar, except to myself.

Banks smiled. Don't worry, he said it's my balls on the chopping-block, not yours. I'll cover for you. My word on it. Susan smiled back. Well, that's the first time not having any balls has ever done me any good.

It's an odd thing is a professional gone bad. They talk about bent coppers, but what about bent lawyers, bent accountants, bent doctors? If push came to shove, would you expect one crooked businessman to stick up for another?

Eliminating politicians' ability to raise money while in session would force them to devote their time exclusively to their job: lawmaking.

Throw Them All Out