Quotes About Integrity

Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even

she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere" ? Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Let us thank God for valour in abstraction For those who go their own way, will not kiss The arse of law and order nor compound For physical comfort at the price of pride

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

I wasn't reaching for glory at Naoetsu. I just wouldn't give the Bird the satisfaction of destroying my dignity. Don't let anyone take yours away, either.

themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can.

A principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor an honesty, till we don't know whom to trust.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)