Quotes About Integrity

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing." "What's the difference?" "The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done—when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff—who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say.

I'm not going to fit into that English courtroom. I'm going to stand out, with how I dress, and how I think, because I'm not English. I don't know about murder and witness and juries, but I do know how to fix things in my life when they're messed up. If you make a mistake and repent, you're forgiven. You're welcomed back. If you lie, and keep lying, there won't be a place for you. -Katie, Plain Truth

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.

When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

You have to learn to follow your heart. You can't let other people pressure you into being something that you're not. If you want God's favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can't let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.

basis for decision making (Proverbs 29:25).

what people thought of him, then he was no longer a servant of Christ (Galatians 1:10).

I think it is important that we shed our false notions that martyrdom

Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.

Whenever an economic sector cloisters itself behind opaqueness, it will begin taking environmental, social, and economic shortcuts. Integrity occurs when people can see what's going in at the front door and what's coming out the back door. Absent that accountability, you lose integrity.

Nothing is as clean and nutritious as a customer-inspected facility and business. When the relationship marketer must pass the scrutiny of the discriminating patron, who personally looks over the entire operation, you'd better believe not one in a thousand would risk doing something unscrupulous.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

as to tell him so to his face. Our minister endeavored to

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

Sincerity is only as good as what we are sincere about.