Quotes About Integrity

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoover

the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

J. Gresham Machen

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

General Guerdon.

There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.

Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.

With respect to relationships within the church, the leader is to be above reproach. Detractors should not have a rung to stand on. If a charge is preferred against him, it fails because his life affords no grounds for reproach or indictment of wrongdoing. His adversary finds no opening for a smear campaign, rumor mongering, or gossip.

If a leader shows strong discipline, others will see it and cooperate with the expectations placed on them. At this point, leadership by example is crucial.