Quotes About Integrity

The Japanese say we have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends and family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.—Unknown

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

People who told the truth didn't have trouble with details. Liars sometimes did.

People walked away all the time, telling themselves they'd be giving up a huge piece of self if they compromised but in the end, the uncompromised individual ended up with a whole piece of nothing.

His deep voice rose with the conviction reminiscent of a newly ordained priest. "Do we choose those to be judged or those who may cast a stone? And if we do, are we not committing a sin far greater than the sinner? Are we not, by doing so, the greater sinners?

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Death is also the moment of a gift that the old give to the young, a last opportunity to teach about life, but is so shaped by accident and happenstance that the moment may pass and wisdom is often unexpressed. The young stand by, wanting to give back to their parents some fraction of the care given to them, hoping that their parents will meet death in a way that softens the anticipation of death in their own lives and reconfirms their sense of the integrity or generosity of their parents.

Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.

I can read signs, and every man here knows it. Your horse steps high and takes a long pace, and your boots leave a mark as good as a signature. There's law out here, Wade, even for a Sawyer. And if you ever touch Cassie again, you'd better hope I remember I'm a Christian man, because that's the only thing that will protect you.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

I'm a one-hour mama, so no one-minute papa. Ain't the kind of man for me.

How would your life be different if you approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day you dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

3 things I want in a relationship: Eyes that wont cry, lips than wont lie, and love that wont die.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I could never love where I could not respect

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.