Quotes About Integrity

As Christians, we can't live by what we feel or go off our gut, because it is rotten (Philippians 3:19). We have to live by truth. God has been constantly reminding me lately that his Word is truth. And truth is truth. It doesn't only become truth when we start believing it. Truth just is - for everybody everywhere and at all times.

You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything.

A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They're afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain 'cool' for the rest of their lives, until they're dead—then they're really cool.

You will never be passionate about something in which you don't fully believe. You may be able to fake your passion for Christ for a season, but it will be sure to wither when the heat of affliction comes. How far you are willing to go and how much discomfort you are willing to experience for the sake of the gospel will say much about what you truly believe.

If Congress asked a question, Henry was prepared to give an honest answer. That's probably why legislators never asked.

I'd rather have wordly power than worldly power.

a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

It's one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,

We cannot serve the executed God and the god of religious respectability.

George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion—"In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something WRONG is something RIGHT. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole WORLD tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world-- --"No, YOU move.

if your heart is not right, no one cares about your leadership skills.

The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

Ninety percent of our success as leaders will be determined by what's below the waterline. It's our leadership character that ultimately drives what we do, and why. It is a true reflection of who we really are as human beings.

You can lead, with or without, a title. If you wait until you get a title, you could wait forever.

when leaders fail to thrive, the culprit is often their leadership character, not their lack of skills.

Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here? By Mark Miller

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear."76

Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and completely by its technical know-how in and public-spiritedness for the general good and welfare.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

We thus see the artist performing a dual function: first, furthering the integrity of the process of self-expression in the language of art; and secondly, protecting the organic continuity of art in relation to its own laws. For like any organic substance, art must always be in a state of flux, the tempo being slow or fast. But it must move.