Quotes About Integrity

person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn't really believe in

The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.

Siempre es el momento propicio para hacer lo correcto.

me inclino siempre del lado de quienes afrontan la tentación cayendo en ella.

It means telling the truth, keeping promises, and taking responsibility for your mistakes. It's the same in business as it is in everyday life. It's a matter of being what you claim to be, doing what you say you'll do.

if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. 'When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, or cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.

Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

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Intéressant, laissa tomber la mère. J'ai la forte impression que Philémon te sera utile dans l'avenir. Il est capable de tout, vois-tu. Il n'a pas de scrupules, aucune morale. Mon père avait un associé qui était toujours prêt à faire le sale travail : inventer des rumeurs, répandre des commérages venimeux, fomenter des différends. De tels hommes peuvent se révéler inestimables.

Que te quiero y quiero casarme contigo, pero también me gusta Walli, y me gusta acostarme con él, y el amor es libre, ¿o no? Así que ¿por qué vamos a mentirnos?

The American papers, which had been available in Vladivostok, were more honest than the British. Lev

If you start a witch hunt, you have to find some witches.

and Wilson was looking for a pretext to unseat him. Gus was thrilled that a world leader would say it was not acceptable for men to achieve power through murder. Would there come a day when that principle was accepted by all nations? The

Tutti gli uomini sono inaffidabili.

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.

Somehow—and Jasper could not figure out how this trick had been worked—people who challenged the president and caught him out cheating and lying were no longer heroes, as they had been in the seventies, but instead were considered disloyal and even anti-American.

Matar a un ruiseñor

La lección, para unos muchachos como vosotros, es que puede haber más honor en la sumisión y en la obediencia que en una imprudente rebelión.

Decía que la integridad personal es como una espada: no debería blandirse hasta el momento de ponerla a prueba.

A la gente no le gustan los políticos que minan la moral de nuestros soldados cuestionando la guerra.

That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises.