Quotes About Integrity

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Remember I told you the truth so that the words and the real might be one again, giving you power. Remember me, and love me anyway.

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

When a lie is not for yourself it's easier to say it.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

If a man writes clearly enough," said Hemingway, "anyone can see if he fakes.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Honesty is basic. It is true that lying is an accomplice to every other form of vice. Or, as someone has said, 'Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.' (O. W. Holmes, in The Home Book of Quotations, p. 1111.)

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

To begin with, one must not cause grief to anyone, whether great or small, unbeliever or believer, and one must not give help to those who are well off.

Qué es la verdadera fortaleza? La fortaleza es poseer la determinación interior necesaria para cumplir los mandamientos de Dios.

The fact is, "wise girls get more" of what really matters for this life and the next!

A woman doesn't just wake up one morning and decide to have an affair. No. The affair happens when day after day she fails to put on the brakes with her thoughts, fantasies, and sexual boundaries.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

The rule is simple: People with integrity are predisposed to perform; people without integrity are predisposed not to perform. It is best not to get the two confused.

A bad person is a bad person, and a bad person will never make you a good deal. The world is filled with enough good and honest people that doing business with the dishonest ones is pure foolishness.