Quotes About Integrity

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

The end must justify the means.

The ends must justify the means.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

Couldn't everyone see that the point of merit is to hold power accountable, not to supply yet another excuse for unaccountable power?

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

The great master Padmasambhava said, Even if my view is higher than the sky, The attention I pay to my actions and their effects is finer than flour.

Even if we can go on deceiving others, it becomes harder to hide the truth from ourselves.

l'humble prend ses décisions selon ce qu'il estime être juste et s'y tient, sans s'inquiéter ni de son image ni du qu'en-dira-t-on.

No se tienen dos corazones, uno para los animales y otro para los humanos. Se tiene un corazón o no se tiene.»

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.

On lui donnait le moyen de se sauver seul. Tout homme sensé, à qui l'on fait une proposition de cette sorte, la considère, et n'en a que plus de mérite lorsqu'il la repousse. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 6, p. 322)

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.