Quotes About Integrity

Truth is not flexible. If they have to stretch, bend or hide the truth in order to get that connection or sale; they might not the best person to connect with or buy from.

Try holding yourself accountable to yourself. If you had to give yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report, would you be proud to talk about what you had done, or would you need to be prettying up things, bullshitting, or lying to keep your job?

Using brand licensed content is not stealing but it is plagiarism.

I did my job," the lawyer said. "The sworn oath of the mediocre," Father Bobby said.

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Si mañana me fusilan, fusilarán a un general que ha hecho honor a su palabra y a sus juramentos militares. Pero si mañana le fusilan a usted, fusilarán a un general que ha faltado a su palabra y a su honor

We are—or we become—what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.

Because we all lie. Every one of us, and whoever claims they don't is the biggest liar of all.

The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.

what's hard to stomach, what's really, really difficult to absorb, is how good people, people you love—friends, parents, children, lovers—do truly terrible things. And how small lies become so big, little snowballs growing into deadly avalanches. And how turning a blind eye over time to seemingly small things can contribute to something so terribly heinous.

We are—or we become—what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be. I check the time. I have a few more minutes before I must get into my uniform. I open a browser and search for "Jon Rittenberg" "Colorado" "Silver Aspens Ski Resort." Articles from the local Colorado newspapers pop up. The older articles mention that Silver Aspens, a TerraWest property, has a new operations manager—gold medalist

People don't hire lawyers like Klister when they have nothing to hide. This woman's fee would send average folk into bankruptcy, or at the least force a second mortgage

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

Go away," he said. "Do you know you've almost no clothes on?" "Never mind. I need—" "Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can 'never mind.' A nearly naked woman isn't one of them.

The two children whose parents had been cheated and taken advantage of while they only tried to live decent lives.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

Erikson maintained that, in later years, we experience a sense of integrity if we believe we have lived meaningful lives. This sense of integrity gives us a feeling of completeness so that we can better accept our approaching deaths. But if we have unresolved regrets about the past—if we think that we made poor choices or failed to accomplish important goals—we feel depressed and hopeless, which leads us to despair.

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty.

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

Cuando caes en la compasión del idiota, evitas agitar las aguas para no lastimar a otra persona, aunque las aguas necesiten ser agitadas y tu compasión acabe resultando más perjudicial que tu sinceridad.

Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.