Quotes About Integrity

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.