Quotes About Integrity

Doing things God's way is always a matter of the heart.

Six things are requisite to create a "happy home." Integrity must be the architect, and Tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by Affection, lighted up with Cheerfulness; and Industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh [vitality] day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except The blessing of God.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

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Let your conscience be your guide.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

All I could say was, I don't know what to do. I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

I was not one for telling the truth back then. Truth telling was not my first instinct in any situation - especially in stressful situations. It took my many years to become an honest person, and I know why: because the truth is often terrifying. Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful.

Everyone should leave the table feeling as if they've gotten a bad deal," my father once taught me joylessly. "This way, you may rest assured that nobody was taken for a ride, and that nobody can get too far ahead.

Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that.

The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker

The wise man is always similar to himself.

Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.

As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, The wise man is always similar to himself. -

Be careful of your dignity, is what I am saying. It is not always your friend.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

It took me many years to become an honest person, and I know why: because the truth is often terrifying. Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night.

I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it. If someday I got lucky enough to be paid for my work, that would be great, but in the meantime, money could always come from other places.