Quotes About Integrity

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

Saying of the Prophet. Lies, promises, trust He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

FIVE KINDS OF FOLLY The Sages have said that five things are signs of foolishness: First, seeking one's own good while harming others; Second, looking for the yield of the last days without discipline and service; Third, loving women harshly and brashly; Fourth, seeking to learn the refinements of science in comfort and ease; Fifth, expecting friendship without oneself being reliable and trustworthy. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: 'when the generous promise, they perform

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.

Saying of the Prophet Privacy Whoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

Cuántos amigos tendrías si fueras de uno en uno, pidiéndoles que escondan un cadáver?