Quotes About Integrity

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

They're only words, unless they're true.

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

To be the person you always wanted to be, do the right things with love.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

There is no shame in doing the right thing, even if its too late.

Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.