Quotes About Integrity

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

What she likes and doesn't, when she isn't lying the lazy lie of decency.

Since I don't smoke or drink or swear unconvincingly, symmetry is my only vice.

of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.

Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.

I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

Christ is a good and simple metaphor for absolute wholeness, complete incarnation, and the integrity of creation. Jesus is the archetypal human just like us (Hebrews 4:15), who showed us what the Full Human might look like if we could fully live into it (Ephesians 4:12–16). Frankly, Jesus came to show us how to be human much more than how to be spiritual, and the process still seems to be in its early stages.

No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.

Humour is a poor substitution for accuracy, and a poorer proxy for truth

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.

You know, in this job we really need someone who is responsible." The man thinks for a moment, then replies, "I am perfect for you. In my last job lots of things went badly wrong, and they always said that I was responsible.

it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people.

see 1 Sam. 22:28).

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

If a good man does nothing when confronted with a moral wrong, what is lost?

All three cops stood there, reaching deep within themselves, ensuring that whatever moral substance they safeguarded in their most secret corners remained untouched as they looked upon the outrage.

I noted too that I had on many occasions spoken on the subject of the pollution of the spirit (or so I told them), and how the spirit should not be polluted, and how I personally looked askance at, for instance, a latte.

If we oversold or underdelivered, then it wasn't a sale; it was a lie. Lying is easy; selling is hard. A great salesperson sells in a way that leads to trust and repeat business.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Does truth have a moral?