Quotes About Integrity

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees.

Although you may argue that it is not wrong to steal from others, the nature within you protests whenever you are tempted to steal. Even bank robbers will admit that, as they rob banks, their nature tells them, "Don't do this." However, they will not listen. It is the same with every evil-doer. Whenever they do something wrong, their nature disagrees. We need to observe the requirements of the nature within us.

Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

It is, of course, a money marriage, nothing more. I wouldn't want to enter into this kind of marriage. I wish to make my wife happy and not make my happiness through her.

If we do not disciple and empower others as Jesus did, we end up exploiting them and using them for our own ends, even if we clothe our actions in very spiritual terms.

true Shaolin disciples, in accordance with Buddhist precepts — though true Shaolin disciples need not be Buddhists, and many aren't — do not tell lies.

Morality is the basis of all spirituality; if one is not morally pure, it is impossible to attain the highest spiritual fulfilment.

God cares less about what we do than what we are. In the eternal scheme of things, God looks at our hearts, not our résumés.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

14. A general association of nations must be formed… for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Right is more precious than peace.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.