Quotes About Integrity

Because when you're doing it, then it's just something you do. But if you talk about it, then it's something you are

what is right is not always clean, and does not always feel good. In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Perhaps everything else that mattered in a relationship grew from trust—from a tranquil faith in the courage, integrity, and kindness of the other person.

Not everything that happens during the day is an omen portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

If we rely upon the tao with which we're born, we always know what is the right thing to do in any situation, the good thing not for our bank accounts or for ourselves, but for our souls. We are tempted from the tao by self-interest, by base emotions and passions.

lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He

To do something, to do what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that, when recalled on lonely nights, make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are. Such doubts are high cards in the devil's hand, and he knows how to play them well, in hope of bringing you to despair and ennui, if not to self-destruction.

What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn't married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?

highly successful history of bribing public officials

Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.

You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.

Coming even fifty miles to force a probe up my butt without my permission is a pretty good definition of a pervert.

He would never claim to be a hero. However, there were moments when you had to show up, be there, assume risks, take bold action, if you still wanted to call yourself a man.

from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.

There's not the slightest blemish on his reputation. He's an enlightened progressive lawman

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.

A sea of lies can't wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is.

we're not living in an age of truth and grace.

if the House and Senate wouldn't write laws to force the courts to do so, then judges and politicians couldn't be counted on to protect anyone, anywhere, at any time.

But in war, you do the right thing, whatever it takes, and if you come out alive, you know how easy you could have screwed up, so bragging on it is dead-solid wrong. Only assholes do that.

No one believing you is a symptom of telling the truth.

Fiecare dintre noi trebuie s? avem curajul de a aduce la lumin? minciunile pe care ni le spunem nou? înÅŸine.

You're so authentic. You are who you are and you aren't willing to apologize for it. I like that.