Quotes About Integrity

Never use hope to hurt someone.

The point is that, whatever other people's failings might be, you are the one to shoulder the responsibility.

If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans.

I'm not going to apologize for things that need no apology.

but a noble cause demanded noble behavior from its advocates, something finer and more self-controlled than run-of-the-mill insults and cheap, adolescent shots.

Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.

Quién eres tú? Y si crees que lo sabes, ¿por qué insistes en mentir al respecto?

a man who is his own man is a better man than most men, even if he doesn't fit in.

Joubert (1801): «Solo debes elegir por esposa a la mujer que escogerías como amigo, si fuera hombre».

Money talks, bullshit walks Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

The ideal solution, as I mentioned in chapter six, is to build relationships before any money is exchanged. Because this is not always possible, both North Americans and Majority World leaders need to strive toward honesty and trust. North Americans need to learn to give without holding controls. Majority World leaders need to understand where the questions from the Western donors are coming from and respond with integrity.

The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Celui qui n'a pas le goût de l'absolu se contente d'une médiocrité tranquille»

for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus he appears as the most unfairly maligned person, and as a martyr of simple-minded honesty.

This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Entre eso y las amenazas de muerte que recibió, la nueva ministra supo que iba por buen camino.

The never-angered person is morally deficient.

I shall continue to quote Dr. Fox: 'But within the academic game of science it is all too easy for the researcher to lose himself in an irrelevant problem, in an intellectual mind-game that may give him the prestige of widespread scientific publication. And he may forget how many animals died for him on his ego trip. A man of science must also be a man of conscience and integrity, constantly assessing the purpose and ethics of his work, whether it involves animals or human subjects.

When you start thinking like Christ, you are guaranteed to sometimes make choices that offend and anger other people.

Firmly speaking the truth in love and maintaining healthy boundaries in relationships will teach most people to treat you respectfully.

Women] who won't say no for fear of offending someone will be taken advantage of and possibly even led into sin by spiritually immature colleagues and clients. [...] Just keep saying no, graciously but firmly, even if they threaten to take their business elsewhere.