Quotes About Integrity

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Respect the burden.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.

They are, in fact, Cheaters, luring men into the foaming waters of carnality without even the vaguest possibility of conception. What a delight, what a subversion of expectation. The healthiest and most womanly of women are in fact a rendition of Amazon queens, self-possessed and self-defined, women whose bodies have an enviable integrity and a fleshy, nonreplicative beauty that razzes Charles Darwin. The buck, the stud, the bull, stops here.

Those who love only half of him do not live him at all.