Quotes About Integrity

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Más vale una vida breve, llena de hazañas y de nobleza, que una vida larga sin contenido

Cowardice causes blindness.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed to a moralistic stance vis-a-vis the patient) but also in resilience to the corruptive or regressive pressures operating upon the superego within the social and cultural system. I now turn

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Politics ruins the character.

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Only a dog I" Well, dogs cannot lie, or bribe, or don a surplice, or pick a lock, or go bull-baiting in sharemarkets, or preside as chairmen over public companies; we can only, if we are dishonest, run off with a bone in a most open and foolish fashion, and get instantly whipped for our pains So that there is one art at least in which men are decidedly in advance of us; and in deference to that superexcellcnce in stealing,

Nay—when will you do so much as remember that the coward who tortures an animal would murder a human being if he were not afraid of the gallows? When will you see that to teach the hand of a child to stretch out and smother the butterfly, is to teach that hand, when a man's, to steal out and strangle an enemy?

HE CHOSE DEATH RATHER THAN UNFAITHFULNESS. HE KNEW NO BETTER. HE WAS A DOG.

Bravo!" said Curly, as five minutes afterwards we passed out from the great hall door. "You are a brick, De Vigne, and no mistake. How splendidly you pitched into that rascally keeper!" De Vigne laughed. "It was a good bit of fun. Always stand up for your rights, my boy; if you don't, who will? I never was done yet in my life, and never intend to be.

Take the dog to him, but do not bring mo back any money; I am not a thief, to take payment for honesty." "What I but he's offered the five sovs. for the dog; you've a right to it,—where is the harm?" "There may be no harm, but I would not take it. My father would have never let me accept a reward fordoing such a little simple thing, so plainly right as that.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

The ends justify the means.

I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.