Quotes About Integrity

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do.

But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that. Shouldn't I? A good man would marry you for love. he says simply.

The truth is the last thing that matters.

A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.

She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.

I have my own loyalties and obligations that I consider and honor. They are not his. They are not at the beck and call of any man.

Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.

Where have I offended you? I take God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble and obedient wife. These twenty years and more I have been your true wife, and by me you have had many children though it pleased God to call them out of this world. And when you had me at the first I was a true maid, without touch of man—" Henry

Si soy una mujer honorable, debo ser tan honorable como es honorable un hombre: sin importar lo que me ponga ni cómo me vea. Se trata del respeto que me tengo, no de la forma en la que el mundo me ve, ni de lo que suceda.

But there are good people whose safety depends on me speaking for them. I have promised to keep the king in one mind. It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind, Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.

Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.

counsels. "And never tell anyone that you spoke to me. And be sure that I will never confess it." "Dear

think of his cupping my mother's cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.

I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin

It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.

Everything is becoming so shappy these days. So lacking in worth. I just don't feel like joing the trend. - Fenton Wood-Lacy

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

But I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.

They say that the spiritual path is straight and narrow, but I used to wonder about that. I used to think that the spiritual path was about being good. It was hard to be good because there were only a few ways of being good. I have since learned the opposite. The spiritual path is straight and narrow because all it takes is moving into a lie to make you absolutely step off of it.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.