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Quotes About Integrity

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.
~ Mikhail Sholokhov
As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
Then if you want something and it's a good thing an you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don't let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say 'bout you and you'll never get anywhere, 'cause there's a lotta folks [who] don't want you to make it.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are. You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for--that's how you gain respect. But, little one, ain't nobody's respect worth more than your own.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just going to hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for-- thats how you gain respect. but little one aint nobody's respect worth more than your own
~ Mildred D. Taylor
Then if you want something and it's a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don't let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say 'bout you you'll never get anywhere, 'cause there's a lotta folks don't want you to make it.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are. You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for - that's how you gain respect. But, little one, ain't nobody's respect worth more than your own. You understand that?
~ Mildred D. Taylor
Naw, I wasn't going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn't call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that's what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.
~ Miles Davis
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
~ Millard Fuller
Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?
~ Mimi Pond
Her father had taught her not to judge people on such shallow points: What a man wore or owned had nothing to do with his heart and character.
~ Min Jin Lee
People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants." Sunja
~ Min Jin Lee
Sins couldn't be laundered by good results.
~ Min Jin Lee
I'm not a good man, but I'm not a bad one, either.
~ Min Jin Lee
What a man wore or owned had nothing to do with his heart and character.
~ Min Jin Lee
People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants." Sunja nodded as he spoke,
~ Min Jin Lee
People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he
~ Min Jin Lee
O pai ensinara-a a não julgar ninguém por coisas tão superficiais: o que um homem vestia ou possuía nada tinha que ver com o seu coração e caráter.
~ Min Jin Lee
Sunja wanted her sister-in-law to make Changho wait, but it wouldn't have been Kyunghee if she had made him do so. Changho had loved someone who would not betray her husband, and perhaps that was why he had loved her.
~ Min Jin Lee
Yoseb would not allow Sunja to accept any money from Hansu for Noa's schooling.
~ Min Jin Lee
You know, I've never wanted to be with another woman. Ever. Not just because she's so lovely, but because she's so good.
~ Min Jin Lee