Quotes About Integrity

taught that people are not to 'be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia)

Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.

Only cowards torture women.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions.

Oh, well, if it's a matter of honor," I said. "You should have said that to begin with. Not that it has anything to do with deciding what we ought to do next, but I am sure you would have felt better for saying it.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

You yourself, I seem to remember, have a way of soaking up scandal broth even as you seem to have a mind for higher and nobler things. Stir yourself.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

I seem to be annoyed not only with Colette, but with the frame of mind I have inherited along with her—the postmodern pride of calling things by their names, the arrogance of assuming integrity is a matter of being more and more open. Or simply that a label, firmly affixed, is honesty in the face of euphemism and discretion.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil," he would later write. "Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."2

Do I have a choice?" "A choice? To hear that your son is a crook? Your wife is an adulteress? Your caterer a blackmailer? And you maid takes bribes to stay quiet?

Heartfelt conviction is not, alas, a guarantee of moral decency.

What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

It's never too late to stop believing a lie," said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both.

tells us that not many of us should become teachers (James 3:1), because the teachers are to be judged more strictly. For this reason, Christians should strive mightily in prayer for their teachers, that those teachers should teach the unadulterated word of God. Those teachers are in a most awful position—God will judge them on the basis of how well they taught his message. It is our prayers, yours and mine, that will help to keep them on the right path.