Quotes About Integrity

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Boundaries are limits where you are not being taken advantage of in an unfair manner.

All horsepower corrupts.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

The enemy of accountability is ambiguity

Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that if they must lie they do so about their own countries, but not about El Salvador ." (Notice displayed on the wall of the Ministry of Defence press office, El Salvador, 1983.)

We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.

God is more interested in the success of our character than the success of our circumstances.

We are the choices we make.

If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now , Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must. Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside. "It'll kill me if I do," he gasped. It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it.

You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd." He pushes Viola forward again - She calls out from the pain of it - Viola, I think - Viola - I grit my teeth and raise the rifle - I cock it - And I say what's true - "I would kill to save her," I say.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

I think I can forgive a kind lie.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.

What if it'd been Simone down there instead of Todd?" I say. And Simone is all over his Noise, his deep feelings for her, feelings I don't think are returned. "You're right," he says, "I don't know. I hope I'd make the right choice, but Viola it is a choice. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.