Quotes About Integrity

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

To get a woman's heart, a man must first use his own.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

I am a big believer in the ''mirror test.'' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

If love be timid it is not true.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

One should never take the easy road, but rather the right road, no matter how long the travel.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.