Quotes About Integrity

Espero ser juzgado por lo que he escrito, no por lo que he dicho o me han hecho decir. Yo soy sincero en este momento, pero quizás dentro de media hora ya no esté de acuerdo con lo que he dicho.

He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.

En Alejandría se ha dicho que sólo es incapaz de una culpa quien ya la cometió y ya se arrepintió; para estar libre de un error, agreguemos, conviene haberlo profesado

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Half, Not Half-Assed

He who tells the truth will lose friends. A Wise Man

The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake.

A boxer, like a writer, must stand alone.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Lidah boleh dipercaya waktu merasa; wajar dicuriga sebaik bersuara.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.