Quotes About Integrity

It is incredibly difficult for any of us to look in the mirror every day and face the reality that we didn't even try to do what we claimed was most important in our lives. Even

A leader who cannot shoulder the blame is not someone we will follow blindly into battle. We instinctively question that individual's character, dependability, and loyalty to us. And so we hold back on our loyalty to him or her.

I have never met a man who wanted to be bad," writes George MacLeod. "The mystery of man is that he is bad when he wants to be good.

El atisbo de reojo delata sin excepción al alumno que alberga alguna intención de copiarse. Los preceptores debían alcanzar esa misma destreza para obtener un sigilo igualmente implacable. No para "mirar sin ver", que es como la frase hecha define al distraído, sino al contrario, para ver sin mirar, para poder verlo todo sin que parezca estar mirando nada.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Tell him the truth and keep it short. No one actually cares about all the reasons you did something wrong. It's a half-assed way of saying you're sorry, not sorry. Admit what you did and stand in it.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

The body never lies." Martha Graham

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Unless under the spell of a psychotic delusion, extreme rage, inescapable deprivation, drugs, or a destructive authority figure, a person who is conscience-bound does not—in some sense he cannot—kill or rape in cold blood, torture another person, steal someone's life savings, trick someone into a loveless relationship as sport, or willfully abandon his own child. Could you?

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. —Doug Horton

There is simply no known way to create a conscience in an individual who does not have one.

Surprisingly, even twenty-first-century society relies rather heavily on the honor system, and when we encounter an individual who simply is not bound by honor, conscience, or connection, we may find ourselves in big trouble.

I wasn't going to let him hurt me." I said, "If I thought he was going to hurt you, I'd be disposing of his body. I don't fuck around, either.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

It makes it sound like the halves are discrete...As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.