Quotes About Integrity

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

If I am putting myself out there and taking some of these risks, then I want to do it properly.

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you're with me, or you're not. And that's how I kind of deal.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardship in order to make a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

Character is more important than talent.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

You see a lot of talented people, but you usually don't see talented people who, behind the scenes, know how to conduct themselves on a higher level.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

We've got some talented people in my family in regards to football, and we do it the right way.