Quotes About Integrity

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Yes, it's true that Cranmer had the courage of a scholar. And Mary a warm heart. And Pole integrity. All good people by nature. Yet look at the Devil's brew they've broiled between them. No one can be everything.

Wherever you're working is where you take a stand. You don't have to go looking for new places, other issues, compelling causes.

A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.

Impegnarsi per essere naturali è già una sconfitta.

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

Why do we insist of depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Why do we insist on depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Whatever you write, let it be the truth.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.