Quotes About Integrity

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

on. It took a Trump to look her in the eye with seventy million people watching during one of the presidential debates and say, "You are a liar and a crook," which she was both. Everybody knew it, but only Donald Trump dared to utter it out loud.

The current dimensions of the left's intellectual crisis are more readily grasped in a writer like Noam Chomsky, who, as an anarchist, has never had illusions about existing "socialisms" and has no attachment, intellectual or visceral, to pristine Marxism. Chomsky's intellectual integrity and moral courage, to my mind, set a standard for political intellectuals.4 Yet in a manner that is not only characteristic of the non-Trotskyist left but seems endemic to its

In case you haven't already figured it out for yourself by now", continued Nelson, now looking pridefully at his open hands, "I eat bullies for breakfast

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Jesus] not only kept Himself from engaging in evil, He also continually acted in ways that honored and glorified god. He not only continually avoided the negative, He always pursued the positive.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we will soon yield to that which is around us.

We have to be willing to live at the same standard by which we judge.

The point is that we know them by their message and their fruit, not by their gifts (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Matthew 7:15-23)."[56]

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

My friends, I implore you to destroy the seeds of greed inside you. Greed will not help you grow wise and rich. Greed

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense

Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -David Levithan (Every Day)

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.