Quotes About Integrity

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

That I dream, and that my wishes Are to do what's right, since we Even in dreams should do what's fitting.

Thee I do not look on, no, For, alas! it is of moment, That he must not see thy beauty Who is pledged to see thy honour.

For no life disgraced is life.—

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

your brand follows you wherever you go—be sure it's the you that you intend for everyone to know.

They cover a wide spectrum of abilities and traits: being self-aware, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, critical thinking, attitude, initiative, empathy, confidence, integrity, self-control, organizational awareness, likability, influence, risk taking, problem solving, leadership, time management, and then some.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Style is not a replacement for substance, and cannot camouflage a lack of substance.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

We are all of us both light and dark, do you not find it so, Miss Tremayne? Wanting in our hearts to do right and able to do wrong. And so it's the choices we've made, surely, that make of us what we are.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.

What you are, all that you are, shows in everything about you—your honesty, your compassion, your courage, your intelligence, and most of all your love.