Quotes About Integrity

There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.

Trouble might come for you when you showed fear, but trouble doubled down when you lied about being afraid.

Trump continued, "I'd rather fight than fold, because as soon as you fold once, you get the reputation of being a folder.

When Cohn boasted that he had spent much of his life under indictment, Trump asked whether Cohn had really done what was alleged. "What the hell do you think?" Cohn responded with a smile. Trump said he "never really knew" what that meant, but he liked Cohn's toughness and loyalty. Cohn

But if the threat to philosophy and thought in general was radical, could there still be hope for the future? Could one go on after Auschwitz without capitulating wholly to its evil, to its negativity, to its destruction of our categories and principles? For Jews, what could remain of the ideas of salvation and redemption? Did integrity require complete despair?

She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.

There was no such thing as situational integrity.

Our purpose is not to be the answer, but rather the question. To make each day a little brighter and leave the world a better place than we found it. That is the true path, which we all must choose to follow, regardless of whether it leads us beneath the shadow of a heel or the tire of a car. Our purpose is to walk that path with our heads held high, hope in our hearts, and belief that our roles, no matter how small, are integral to the grand design.

The idea that every government official counts as all-wise and incorruptible makes no more sense than the assumption that each corporate honcho displays flawless judgment and stainless ethics.

Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ? John Wooden Quote

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

it is what you are striving for which is important, not how you appear.

The outcome is a result of the integrity of the process.

Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don't need to pretend to be infallible.

If the execution of a million or more sentient beings, the destruction of a dozen planetary communities, isn't enough—if the members of the Council need a living victim paraded in front of them to move them to act—then shame on them. And shame on us.

Shame is a scarce commodity in politics

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The