Quotes About Integrity

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You only hurt yourself.

Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

There are three principles in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

there is no Jezebel remedy. There's no conscience chemo. No pill for cheating. No therapeutic number of Hail Marys or blow jobs or home-cooked meals or good-wife deeds.

The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

Here stand I. I can do no other.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

I would rather be ruled by a just Turk than by an unjust Christian.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.