Quotes About Integrity

There are far more kind and honest people than there are courageous people.

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

The bad may have money, power, and fame, but they do not have friends (though they may well have sycophants).

While shared values aren't sufficient for friendship, friendship is impossible without shared values. In fact, one reason people are hurt by those they had considered friends is that friends are too often chosen without attention to their values.

I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, 'chemistry,' or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e. their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

The most important thing to understand when it comes to our baser parts is not only how normal and natural it is to have them but that there is nothing wrong in having them. Bad is doing bad, not thinking bad (there are exceptions—see the next chapter), and it is certainly not merely having bad tendencies.

Speak now! A full account! Attempt to hide nothing, or I will send fire to consume your testicles.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

Those who flaunt themselves are not clear Those who presume themselves are not distinguished Those who praise themselves have no merit Those who boast about themselves do not last

Integrity is the courage to maintain your resolve despite pressure or temptation, and the conviction to hold on to the truth even when everyone disagrees with you.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin.

Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what's a house between drunkards?

I should like to keep these simple joys inviolate, not because they are innocent, but because they are true

From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair".

Nuestra bondad crece cuando se le pone a prueba

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.

a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

In defense of King, country, and family, he would unhesitatingly have sacrificed his virtue to Nessie, had that been required. If it was a question of Olivia marrying a man with syphilis and half the British army being exterminated in battle, versus himself experiencing a personal interview with Richard Caswell, though, he rather thought Olivia and the King had best look to their own devices.

He who throws dirt is losing ground

But what I would ask of ye- when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. WE have nothing now between us, save- respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.