Quotes About Integrity

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

No hay que confundir poesía con vaselina; vigor, con camiseta sucia.

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it's such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don't lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I'd pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.

Una foto comunica qualcosa se è sincera, se lo scambio non è stato acquistato.

Ashikaga Takauji41 had an evil reputation as a traitor, but it is said that he sat zazen for some time every night and never failed to engage in this daily practice even when he became intoxicated. I think this should be a lesson to students of Zen.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul's desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Quiero saber si puedes decepcionar a otra persona para ser fiel a ti mismo; si podrías soportar la acusación de traición y no traicionar a tu propia alma...

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Che senso ha rispettare chi non rispetta noi? Che senso ha difendere la loro cultura o presunta cultura quando essi disprezzano la nostra?

No me arrepentiré. Sólo cuando uno se respeta a sí mismo puede exigir el respeto de los demás, y sólo cuando uno cree en sí mismo los demás pueden creerle.

Aggiungo che a pensarci bene quest'Italia non è un'Italia ideale. È un'Italia che nonostante tutto esiste. Zittita, ridicolizzata, sbeffeggiata, diffamata, insultata, ma esiste. Quindi guai a chi me la tocca. Guai a chi me la invade. Guai a chi me la ruba.

Vedi, nemmeno a contatto con l'infinito un uomo diventa grande se in lui non v'è grandezza. Andar sulla Luna non ci rende certo migliori.

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.