Quotes About Integrity

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Da pausa, da paz ou da trégua, do presente que olha com desdém para todo o passado, do agora que se acha superior a qualquer antes, é facílimo proclamar com soberba: "Eu ter-me-ia recusado, eu ter-me-ia revoltado", e sentir-se assim íntegro e puro.

Hay algo vil, hay algo sucio en hacerse pasar por quien no se es, en conducirse taimadamente, en ganarse la confianza de otro tan sólo para traicionarla, aunque ese otro sea un malvado, un enemigo, un asesino.

El corazón de los hombres, al contrario que su piel, no tiene diferentes colores. O tiene grandeza o no la tiene, nada más

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Never do anything in secret or anything that you would wish to hide. For the desire to hide anything means that you are afraid, and fear is a bad thing and unworthy of you. Be brave, and all the rest follows.

There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

The road to profitability is paved with credibility. Credibility is something you earn by how you market, where you market, how you treat people, how you act, and your overall level of professionalism. Away from the business arena, the term is street cred, and it's the road to respect.

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them. —Plato

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.

The argument which is made by a man's life is of more weight than that which is furnished by words. —ISOCRATES

America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

I've always felt that photographers who say, "They used the wrong picture," have only themselves to blame. They gave them the "wrong" picture. I didn't worry because I only gave them pictures that worked. It's my obligation to take out all the "wrong" pictures.

Ignorance is the enemy not just of our democratic system but also of our moral integrity as a nation, as the land of the free and home of the brave.

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

You and I certainly had out issues, Cooper. But I never, for a moment, doubted that you could be trusted. My father told me once that your word was good amber. I have no reason to believe otherwise.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.