Quotes About Integrity

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

In the law of Moses, God forbade the judges to take a gift: "Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise and change the words of the just." (Deut. 16:19).

Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41

use what you've got. Always find a use for what you've got. Never promise what you can't deliver, and always do a deal with a smile and a friendly word if possible. That advice had served him in good stead all his working life.

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are." Never was a truer word said!

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all you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing that you couldn't ever deny.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.