Quotes About Integrity

Only thus can hope be bright that there might come a tomorrow when you, the descendants of the settlers of our lands, can say to the world, Look, we came and were welcomed, and then we wrought much despair; but we are also men of honour and integrity and we set to work in cooperation, we listened and we learned, we gave our support, and today we live in harmony with the first people of this land who now call us, brothers.

Being good is the best revenge anyone can have.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I believe the first test of truly a great man is in his humility.

The first and absolute condition of the thing's ever becoming saleable is, that we shall make it without wanting to sell it; nay, rather with a determination not to sell it at any price, if once we get hold of it. Try to make your Art popular, cheap –

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

When I told my father I wasn't going to be a minister of any kind, he said that I should never take cover in life, that I should stand out in the wind. Feel it. I'm trying to do that.

Don't get your honey where you get your money

You didn't need it, because you're basically a painter, not a thief. But I'm basically a thief. That's what I do.

Joe, you're thinking in slogans," Lucas said. "You don't talk to cops, you don't inform on anybody, you don't respond to threats. You've got to listen to what I'm saying. This isn't make-believe. This isn't political bullshit, or a TV show—this is a real thing.

Having some guy shine his flashlight up my asshole isn't gonna improve my addition," he said.

That's bullshit, man," Dannon said. "That whole thing is buried so deep, and the guys who buried it all have stars now. They'd never get you." "That's what I told him," Carver said. "I think he's going to do it anyway. I'm telling you, he's a crazy mean cocksucker. He's got nothing unless I talk, except the 'stan, and he'll use it to bust my balls.

He glanced at her: "Sure. You guys must be really close." She was blunt: "Close enough to get your ass fired if you're suggesting that Colles and I are sleeping together." "I wasn't suggesting that," he muttered, rapidly backing off. "Try harder not to suggest it," she said; her tone did everything but smear blood on the windshield. (Page 16)

Lies do not in themselves lead to poor outcomes, nor does truth in every circumstance lead to good ones. As with so many things, context matters.

Here's a hot tip: If you think calling someone a social justice warrior is an insult, you might be a horrible person.

He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.

I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.