Quotes About Integrity

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

The rules were clear then. If you once crossed the line from journalism into partisan politics, you could not return. They were them and we were us.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people—about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They're real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.

The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for "personal reasons" or to "spend more time with their families." They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

You don't get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by your character and the decisions you make in the moment.

In work and in life, no matter how smart, talented, and beautiful you are, you also have to be a good person.

Trust yourself if you want other people to trust you.

Never do anything you don't want to do," he said, very slowly. "Never. You understand me?

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

Be brave, be clever, and be true to your heart.

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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand

Yell. Heckle. Do anything you want. We came here to play baseball.

Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society.

Ugly is how someone acts, not how they look.

What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking, but only at what he himself is doing, in order that he does what is just and respectful of the gods. As Agathon4 said, do not peer into the darkness of another's character, but run straight toward the finish line without straying from your path.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.