Quotes About Integrity

As Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.

This malfeasance must be stopped," said Flora in a deep and superheroic voice.

Do gooders don't interest me. They are the least interesting people on the planet.

If you knew about something that was locked up in a cage, something big and beautiful that was locked away unfairly, for no good reason, and you had the key to the cage, would you let it go?

Itchie-pitchie-poo, Hank," said Patty LeMarque. "Say what you mean and mean what you say.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...

He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

What family isn't held together by a cartilage of lies? In these fractured times, these days of spin, you have to make the family you can.

Aber nachdem so viele auf dieselbe Art gebrandmarkt worden waren, wurde es zum Symbol eines guten Charaktern. Ein Ehrenzeichen. Ja.

I think heroes and heroines are both vulgar and boring and usually lead that kind of lives. But when you tell people you were just doing your own thing in an admittedly escalated situation, they say, Ah, yes, etc.

No longer would the Post write such lines as one identified by Chal Roberts in his history of the paper: "Sam Jones, 24, Negro, was arrested for larceny yesterday." Overnight, he eliminated "freebies"—trips paid for by the government and free tickets for anything. Also, after just a few weeks on the job, he called in the police reporter, Al Lewis, to ask if he was having parking

hand and working to unite the country, Nixon

Brenda burst in. "Do you know what some people do? They charge something and wear it, and then take it back and say it didn't fit or something. The stores don't give 'em no trouble." Her father turned in a kind of roar. "I never heard such a fool thing in my life. Didn't you hear your mother tell you to shut your mouth, girl!

It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they run into tyrants and dictators.

Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.

It's the principle of the thing, Jess . That's what you've got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they turn into tyrants and dictators.

After all, they were just words, and she had learned long ago that a man's actions displayed his truer nature more than the things he said.

Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.

I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

Not only in private, but in politics, too.