Quotes About Integrity

Three things are required of man—to worship the gods, to do no evil, and to maintain manly behavior.

even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?

Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.

He hesitated, himself offended by the next question he had to put to her. He told himself that he was like a priest, a doctor, and that what people told him went no further, but he knew that wasn't true, knew that he would respect no confidence if it would lead him to find the person he was looking for.

If criminals can't believe in an illegal deal with the police, what can they believe in?

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted—

Truth will never spoil any one. Praise is very delightful.

It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

Ain't no point in having a god, man, if he's just a slum lord never does nothin'.

But Thor and I weren't going to happen, ever. I didn't tell her this. I might be a killer, but I'm not mean.

What type of person would want to give out tickets and bust people's balls for a living? Answer: bullies and jerks and guys with little man syndrome who needed to boost their fragile egos by pushing people around. But Jack wasn't like that. She was a decent cop, and a decent person.

She simply set firm rules for her private life and never deviated from them. The full impact of Bess Truman's contribution to the history of America, and, indeed, of the world, will probably never be measured. Only she can supply the details, and I'm sure that she won't. Her keen intelligence, calm reasoning, and unswerving devotion to her husband were rarely revealed to the public

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all. Be thorough, be real, be honest, be sound, be whole-hearted. If you have any religion at all, let your religion be real. See that you do not sin the sin of Lot's wife.

Don't think," whispers Satan: he knows that an unconverted heart is like a dishonest businessman's financial records, they will not bear close inspection. "Consider your ways," says the Word of God--stop

Set your immortal soul before your mind's eye, and when men ask you why you live as you do, answer them in his spirit, "I live for my soul.

Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and I will soon tell you what he is, and on which road he is travelling.

Evening is the time which the higher classes choose for dancing, card playing, and the like; and consequently never get to bed till late at night. If we love our souls, and would not become worldly, let us mind how we spend our evenings. Tell me how a man spends his evenings, and I can generally tell what his character is.

Never be ashamed of letting men see that you want to go to heaven. Do not think it a disgrace to show that you are a servant of God. Never be afraid of doing what is right.

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.