Quotes About Integrity

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)

I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.' 'A letter in which you accuse the Government...' 'Of course I accuse. If the Government uses falsehoods and the blind eye to conduct its affairs, then shouldn't I accuse? If I am betraying a trust to reveal it, then I am still right and you cannot make me wrong.

May we be strong by doing what is right

Weshecat-welo k'weshe-laweh-pah, let us be strong by doing right.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

Every time you say yes to something you don't want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, "I did it again.

HONESTY COMPOUNDS. It compounds exponentially. No matter what happens in your bank account, in your career, in your promotions, in your startups. Honesty compounds exponentially, not over days or weeks, but years and decades. More people trust your word and spread the news that you are a person to be sought out, sought after, given opportunity, given help, or given money. This is what will build your empire.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for.

John is a bad boy, but a good man.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.

when God says to do or not do some physical thing with our bodies, it is important that we pay heed because this is one of His ways of dealing with us in a total fashion. It shows a very superficial understanding of human existence to say, "Well, what matters is my heart attitude, not the posture of my body.

Tu proponi il tuo sguardo alla realtà. Se non proponi te stessa, proponi una menzogna, un'astrazione.

Certo, e poi non si può dare a un altro quello che non si ha: Nemo dat quod non habet.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.