Quotes About Integrity

Individuals must take responsibility for their choices and cannot hide behind convention or rules.

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

Ethics are more important than ever before to a company's reputation with customers, investors, potential recruits and indeed its own staff. And

A worthy man is not always a holy man.

I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness - your own or another's.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything and everyone in society is telling you to ignore, supress, or abandon the path of nonviolence, understanding and care.

Anjing dipelihara dengan diberi makan. Manusia dipelihara dengan diberi uang. Tapi, tak seorangpun bisa memelihara serigala dari Mibu! (Hajime Saito)

its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite

Tell her how much she means to you. Tell her you were with someone else before you met her—that's very important—and unfortunately you contracted something. Be polite and discreet and very apologetic. Remember, she likes you. She doesn't know you're a whore.

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.