Quotes About Integrity

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.

The real courage is seeing the truth and speaking the truth to each other.

Spotlight Your Fallibility Early On—Especially If You're a Leader:

Eliminate Bad Apples:

Deliver the Negative Stuff in Person: This was an informal rule that I encountered at several cultures. It goes like this: If you have negative news or feedback to give someone—even as small as a rejected item on an expense report—you are obligated to deliver that news face-to-face.

He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

They say I was afraid to stand up to a paper tiger. It is all such nonsense. What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?

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Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

no matter what happens to our bodies o our minds, our souls remain whole.

Moral regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the right thing.

When the reward is the activity itself—deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best—there are no shortcuts. The only route to the destination is the high road. In some sense, it's impossible to act unethically because the person who's disadvantaged isn't a competitor but yourself.

The most telling demonstration of this point came from several dozen people from all over the world who described their regret—their failure to be bold—with the same five words: "Not being true to myself.

When we behave poorly, or compromise our belief in our own goodness, regret can build and then persist.

Being honest about the existence of a small blemish can enhance your offering's true beauty.

All deep structure regrets reveal a need and yield a lesson. With moral regrets, the need is goodness. The lesson, which we've heard in religious texts, philosophy tracts, and parental admonitions, is this: when in doubt, do the right thing.