Quotes About Integrity

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Rule 9 Okay, so a lot of the dog rules, say, the majority, can be made up by the dog, and if the owner knows what's good for him, he will obey these rules, but if he disobeys a rule and the dog doesn't find out about it, the under is under no obligation to confess.

The concrete man has but one interest—to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

How lonely life is when one prefers money to morals.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with the fleas.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.

It's not a question anymore of fishing," Sam spoke up. "It's a question of what's right, Cork. We've bent like reeds in a river for generations, bent so far over we've just about forgot how to stand up straight. Look at us now. None of us has ever been so proud of being a Shinnob.

She kept secrets, her own and those told to her. I guess you'd call it integrity

Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird. He

The inquest proceeded smoothly, evidence showing that Cork had acted reasonably. But the county attorney, Warren Evans, who was a crony of Robert Parrant, asked Cork a question that tilted the whole world of the inquest. "Why did you shoot six times, Sheriff? Shoot even after the man was down?

My chosen weapon is the truth. It will set us free. Eventually.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When your corporate motto is "Making friends is our business," it forgives a lot of sins.

A Squadron Commander who can't take his best friend out and shoot him can't Command worth s*#t" -Steep Turner

she was one of those selective, ferociously loyal people who, once they have taken you in, will stand by you through the most desperate times. Such people have few acquaintances and many friends. They withhold their affection because it costs them so much to give it so completely, and because they never—ever—revoke it. If you are lucky, you may meet one or two of them in your life.

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.