Quotes About Integrity

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it." Oscar Wilde / #Hole_in_my_Life By Jack Gantos

After an earthquake in China, the generous tobacco companies stepped in to pay for the rebuilding of the area's schools. However, there is an ethical question to be asked here. Is it right that a school should now be called 'Sichuan Tobacco Project Hope Primary School'? And furthermore, should the company have been allowed to paint a huge message on the school's walls which says Tobacco can help you become an achiever? I'm sure you can guess the answer...

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life." –

We need leaders of conviction who have diverse constituencies always in mind, who carefully consider the larger contexts of their words and deeds. We need people who aren't afraid to stand for what they believe in, but who also recognize the privilege of their position. We need leaders who hold themselves accountable to their peers – leaders of great fortitude and great integrity.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.

Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques—he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.

It is through virtuous conduct, through loving-kindness and compassion, and through understanding of truth that one becomes noble.

There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.

Nothing done in love that harms no one can be perverse.

And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave

dignity shortly after dark. While they were

Some guys got class even if they're cops. When

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel—or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good—and as bad—as the man who carries it. Remember that.

A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who carries it.

What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts.