Quotes About Integrity

And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone . . .

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong but few of us take the challenge of doing right

Dishonesty and hedging the truth are too much work. I realize some may take offense, but I've determined that I don't require the friendship of those who do.

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong, but few of us take on the challenge of doing right.

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

The humane position, and the biblical position, is that individuals are under no obligation to affirm as true something they have not adequately examined. Moreover, if after careful examination, a claim is falsified by the evidence, it should be rejected.

The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain

absolutely did not. "Door stays open," she

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

For this is the heart of the matter: disasters occur where accidents meet character.

Never keep someone on a job who likes it too much. She knows when she sees the single flash of that gleeful and hungry face that they're not here to raid for what they can find. They're not here for anything that can be given.

There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.

They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.

Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did.

Historian Robert Proctor has recently documented the creation of newsletters, magazines, and journals—including journals with ostensible peer review—in which the results of industry-sponsored research could be reported, published, and then cited, as if they were independent. These included Tobacco and Health, Science Fortnightly, and the Indoor Air Journal.13 It was a simulacrum of science, but not science itself.

My Torah is also the greatest,' said the rav, 'but those who are mean-spirited have yet to use it.

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

First life lesson: know your fucking worth. When you're about to sell your soul to the devil, get a better price.

Honesty set you free,

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.