Quotes About Integrity

God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.

There are no true monsters, only some people [...] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [...] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

Wildly, he declared that she was a whore at heart, that she had always been a whore, that she had been one when he met her. That was not true. In her early working life, as a photographer's model and cocktail waitress, she had occasionally given herself to men and received gifts in return. But it wasn't the same as whoring. She had liked the men involved. What she gave them was given freely, without bargaining, as were their gifts to her.

Clinton sighed, and gave up. All his life he had given up. He didn't know why it was like that; why a man who wanted nothing but to live honestly and industriously and usefully - who, briefly, asked only the privileges of giving and helping - had had to compromise and surrender at every turn. But that was the way it had been, and that apparently was the way it was to be.

Truth without love is like surgery without anesthesia. Love without truth is like a cheerleader without a team. But truth in love is medicine. It is meaningful, and it is the only way communication can be effective and cause growth in relationships.

O amor só mente para dizer maior verdade.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

MARIA MADE A LIST of things she would never do. She would never: walk through the Sands or Caesar's alone after midnight. She would never: ball at a party, do S-M unless she wanted to, borrow furs from Abe Lipsey, deal. She would never: carry a Yorkshire in Beverly Hills.

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

Nonetheless, character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

People who respect themselves...are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds. That kind of self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.

herself that he was not just trying to please

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

The Bishop was capable of anger, but he was not capable of hate.

She marched to the door and said, if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.