Quotes About Integrity

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Beware of conference-room promises. (Ronald Moen.)

The pay and privilege of the captains of industry are now so closely linked to the quarterly dividend that they may find it personally unrewarding to do what is right for the company.

Let us honour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

Sanitizing the past is every bit as morally irresponsible as whitewashing atrocities in the present.

She always paid a high price for her dignity.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The end of culture is right living.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

there is no truth Saving in thine own heart. -from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd

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