Quotes About Integrity

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership style. He'd inherited something great and he didn't screw it up. p259

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don't need to prove anything to the world:

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

I don't like begging money from producers.

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Eddie is a man in all that noun means.

And because I had been in some tight corners before and had known real fear, if I found something that was true, I was happy to just write it up and deal with the fallout. No big.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

We had to scrub our books and practices so that they reflected the reality of our underlying businesses. We also had to shake our executives out of their blinding fixation on quarterly results. Only then could we make planning decisions that supported long-term growth.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

If you don't know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.