Quotes About Integrity

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

I recognize that what you believe doesn't matter in the slightest. All that matters is how you personally behave.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

I've just reached the age when I don't bother with people I have to make allowances for." Toward

It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Incarnate spirit refuses to be bound. Escaping to freedom, purchasing one's own freedom or that of a loved one, fighting for freedom, offering up one's own body for the life and freedom of another and dying for freedom were acts of redemption that aimed to restore black bodily and psychic integrity.

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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones.

Clear thoughts," he said. "Clear sight. Kind words. Right acts.

Fair face does not equate to hallowed heart.

loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.

If the words have no heart, there is no heart.

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

All these years you drone on about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, then you go and sell your own daughter.

In business, real discipline comes in saying no to the wrong opportunities." —Jim Collins

Eu sei que vossa excelência preferia uma delicada mentira; mas eu não conheço nada mais delicado que a verdade.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.