Quotes About Integrity

Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing

I try to limit my exposure to politicians to a bare minimum; they trigger my hypocrite allergy.

falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

When in doubt, follow the truth. The path is often well-illuminated and it usually leads me in the right direction.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

It is an empty joy to appear better than you are; but a great blessing to be what you ought to be.

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

In his documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore quotes a well-known twentieth-century American journalist, Upton Sinclair: "It's difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

I keep a box in which I store his artwork and writings, like his response to an assignment in which he has been asked if you should always try your best. "I don't think you should always try your best all the time," he writes, "because, let's say a drug atick asks you for drugs you should not try your best to find him some drugs." Another assignment that goes into the box is

You're as sick as your secrets.

Love cannot exist for long without the dimension of justice.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

A man got to have a code. --The Wire

When doing the heroic thing, the right thing, conflicts with your personal power, and you choose the right thing over the personal power thing, you have begun to understand what Agape is. It's thankless, it's difficult, yet it's what the greatest songs are sung of.

We had no interest in saying what our audience wanted to hear. In fact, we wanted to tell them the opposite … and we did! The people on the side of the Truth will always end up with no audience. The liars will always have their huge audience. That's the difference between truth and lies. How will we make ourselves more popular? I know … we'll use emojis! Not!

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and promise as little as possible in return.

Any Indian or mixed-blood who shall pay or offer to pay any money or other valuable consideration to the friends or relatives of any Indian girl or woman, for the purpose of living or cohabiting with said girl or woman,