Quotes About Integrity

I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know." -Owen d'Arcy

The challenge is not to be perfect…it's to be whole

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.

Judges live with shadows behind them.

If you keep secrets from your father, to whom can you tell them? If you hide food from your mother, to whom can you give it?

beautiful. Untarnished by the touches of other men, unencumbered with pride and vanity

Asked once what he was doing to keep busy in retirement, Hank Aaron replied, "I'm being Hank Aaron.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

She would not exploit anyone. People would not observed by irony run amok. The audience would not have their superiority confirmed. Somehow they would feel like everyone was in it together.

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.

Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go.

It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.

Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

Damn him. How could she ever respect him if he didn't even let her respect herself? A man that broke down her defenses with touch- with pleasure- well, that was just wrong.

Your doctors are also the victims of their own belief system, in other words. They constantly surround themselves with negative suggestions. When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. The patient is sometimes compelled to sacrifice one organ after another to his beliefs, and to the doctor's.

There's no fair swap for truth, son, not even with good intentions." -Jones

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

When the land is abused, nature has a way of striking back. Land will eventually go back to what nature intended, but the cost is high. The land is what it is, no matter what man does or thinks he can do. Benteen Calder knew it, and Webb knew learned it. Hopes die and man moves on, but the land stays.

A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink in the quaking earth: there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

All in all, Maggy concluded, she had done right. Tocohol knew that she could not see the ship from here, so Maggy had not lied to a friend. She had told a pleasing story, and she was very proud of her new ability.

But it is Charlie's philosophy that a first-rate man should be willing to take at least some difficult jobs with a high chance of failure. And just as he decries making money "with lily white hands," he believes that giving time, talent, and risking his reputation is just as important as contributing money.

Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?

There are qualities to richness we all have to develop on our own. Money cannot buy a man a pleasant sense of humor, money will not make a man behave decently, and money cannot teach a man how to treat others with dignity.

To expect bad men never to do bad things is insensate; it is hoping for the impossible. To tolerate their offenses against others, and expect none done against oneself, is both irrational and arbitrary." —Marcus Aurelius