Quotes About Integrity

Allowing something you've created to be undermined to a point where you can no longer believe in it or stand behind it feels suicidal to me.

Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.

The lighthouse teaches me to work hard, to keep my room clean, to be honest and to be nice to people." Then, reflecting, looking down at her feet, "My room is a mess and I lie sometimes and I'm not always nice to people but that's the idea.

She had wanted to cover up the core of her decisions by hiding facts or watering them down. But she must have been wise enough to realize, no matter her motivations, no matter the labyrinth, every omission left some sign of its presence.

His father could have been less honest, because honesty was often just a way of being cruel.

He that feels pure, let him cast the first stone.

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

alimentadas solo por el dinero mal habido.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. "Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?" And the master of the good name said, "When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

I believe it was Jean Améry who noted that the first to bow to the oppressor's system and to adopt its doctrines and methods were the intellectuals. But not all of them. Not the rabbis and priests, who, after all, were intellectuals too. With a single exception, no rabbi agreed to become a kapo. All refused to barter their own survival by becoming tools of the hangman. All preferred to die rather than serve death. The lessons of the prophets and the sages became shields for them. On

Do not hang a young man whose only crime is fidelity to his ideal

One of his [Rebbe Mikhal of Zlotchev] prayers: I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth.

there is "response" in responsibility.

He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.

Just be aware that what you achieve doesn't matter as much as what kind of person you are

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.