Quotes About Integrity

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Only the fakes survive.

Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth.

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying." A brilliant scientist, later president of the Royal Society, he advised investigators, "Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." He also believed that learning had purpose, stating, "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.

Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best.

Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

As California senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty when war comes is truth.

There was no trust, no trust, and without trust all human relations were breaking down.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.