Quotes About Integrity

I mean, if you give in when you're eighteen and a half, you'll give in for the rest of your life, don't you think?

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

Remember: What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do.

Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?

For so many years I had used my connections to get special treatment. I expected people to overlook my tendency to bend the rules or cut corners or even kite checks. Standing in the hallway, temporarily banished from my prison room for illicit possession of office supplies, I felt good about telling the truth. It was a small thing. Nothing at risk but a few sheets of carbon paper. But it felt important.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. -Neil Young

Cheating means something though," she said. "Americans are obsessed with it." "Americans in particular?" "I think they worry about it more—so it happens more.

Men who speak loudly about their "conquests" most assuredly have little to claim.

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.