Quotes About Integrity

No me creo a los que fingen interesarse por ellos. Aquí cada uno va a la suya. Lo más decente es decir la verdad.

Just do the right thing." The simplicity is so removed from my own generation of helicopter parents.

They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.

Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There

liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

He is on the precipice of cheating, maybe, which in itself is a kind of thrill for him, and yet, if he thinks about it too much he knows it is the same thing. On the precipice or over the precipice, once you're there, you're there.

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized and often despised.

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist.

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

Los verdaderos líderes son aquellos que conocen sus limitaciones y trabajan con ellas. Son fieles a sus palabras, predican con el ejemplo e inspiran a los demás a pasar a la acción por sí mismos.

The Hindu scriptures declare that those who habitually speak the truth will develop the power of materializing their words. What commands they utter from the heart will come true in life.

But you are what you do, not what you say you are.

You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

Function must dictate form.