Quotes About Integrity

I am a woman above everything else.

While I may be guilty of many things, one of them is not that I would lie to you. I will tell you every awful truth," he promised. "I will not lie to you, at least not about big things. If you ask about hairstyles, butt size, or shoes, then I might resort to creative answers.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU HAVE, AND THE BEST WILL COME BACK TO YOU. —ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, AUTHOR AND POET

What should he say to this woman that wouldn't entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Technical civilization has made the great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact.

qué puede justificar la fidelidad, fuera de la palabra empeñada? Pero la palabra empeñada a menudo se empeña a la ligera. Sino se la empeñase así, es probable que se la empeñaría mucho más raramente.

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

tu zostáva pre umelca jediným problémom neby? slabý v úlohe prijatej od Boha, ktorá je jeho úlohou: ma? umenie dos? silné a dos? správne, a tak by? vždy pánom všetkého, s ?ím pracuje, a nestráca? ni? z ?istoty tvorby: a vo svojej ?innosti horie? iba pre dobro diela, nedopusti?, aby tiaha ?udského alebo Božského bohatstva, ktorá napl?uje jeho srdce, poklesla alebo sa odchýlila.

?o sa potom stane, ak na druhej strane - a teraz z h?adiska ?udského dobra - mravné svedomie umelca za predpokladu, že ho má, prehlási, že nie?o v diele, ?o je umelecky dobré a nutné, pokým môže súdi?, je mravne zlé a musí sa teda zmeni?? ..potom sa umelec musí snaži?, aby o?istil svoj prame?. nie je to pohodlné a je na to treba ve?kú trpezlivos?. iné reálne riešenie neexistuje.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.

The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.

They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal.

A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one . . .

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

Declaration of Conscience," delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy's "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." She and Kefauver were thus allies against

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true. And so I made pleasant little noises that showed both modesty and appreciation, but inside I was making a vow to erase from my mind, line by line, every word of that poem.

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.