Quotes About Integrity

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. I may come in an earthquake, or cyclone, or plague or pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Would I not go to hell a million times for you?

No Christian leader – no leader of any kind – is immune from the dangers of misuse of power and position.

Churches that lack accountability structures for leaders (or where leaders have dismantled them) are powerless when things go wrong. Not only are they driving without a seatbelt, they have cut the brakes and may be hurtling towards a cliff.

In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart....

You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.

The worse things get, the more you know you can count on men like that to always have your back. If you really want to know if someone is a true friend, get yourself into a tight spot with him or her, everyone has plenty of friends when things are good, but friendship is forged in moments of chaos.

Honor, Courage, Commitment, the motto of the United States Navy,

And he simply would not tolerate any other high-ranking officer, commissioned or noncommissioned, reaming out one of his guys. He

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

Maybe the problem is that no one is telling the truth about it. Maybe if there were more facts and fewer agendas, none of this would be happening.

she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]