Quotes About Integrity

He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with;

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

Happy people didn't tell lies.

Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno consigue manipular a los demás para gustarles, será difícil no sentir cierto desprecio por esas personas, ya que han caído en el engaño.

People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

You're entirely capable of doing things you aren't moved to do and refraining from things that you want to do. That doesn't make you Gandhi. It makes you an adult.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something, being good.

Being reliable is something. Being good.

You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren't finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren't making you rich. But they were making the world rich

Nobody wants to be a caricature. Nobody wants to be a diminished version of herself.

Make us better than we are. Make us good.

He was too ethical, and too much of a coward. (Sometimes it was hard to differentiate.)

Als ik ergens vertel dat ik vegetariër ben, word ik bijna altijd gewezen op een inconsequentie of probeert men een zwak punt te ontdekken in een bewering die ik nooit heb gedaan. (Ik heb vaak het idee dat mijn vegetarische levenswijze voor zulke mensen belangrijker is dan voor mij.)