Quotes About Integrity

The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment, but is not bowed down by them, is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known relative prosperity.

Preferiria ganhar 150 francos por mês como pintor do que 1.500 francos por mês por outros meios, mesmo como negociante de quadros.

Theo, I am a man with faults and errors and passions, but I don't think I ever tried to deprive anyone of his bread or his friends. I have sometimes fought people with words, but attempting a man's life because of a difference of opinion is not the work of an honest man - at least, these are not honest weapons.

Understand that the more clear-cut we are about this, the sooner they will come to you to see them. You yourself do not sell my work, so you are not doing business outside the firm of Boussod V. & Co. by showing it. So you will be acting quite correctly, which is always decent. However, should someone or other want to buy, very good, then they have only to apply directly to me. But be sure of this, if we can stand the siege, my time will come.

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And let me just say this: I think as much of brotherly integrity when it comes to Boussod's money as you do. It has never played us false. And we have sweated far too much doing good work to get annoyed at being called thieves or incompetents.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

A mind aware of its own rectitude.

Trust one who has tried.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

It takes great courage to be honest when the honesty is pointed at yourself.

The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

If you are pure in your heart and strong in your decisions, you are equal to the whole world, you will be a one man army.

for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;

No man to be judged by mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.