Quotes About Integrity

Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.

There is nothing beneath a leader.

By behaving honorably, even to people who may not deserve it, he believes you can influence them to behave more honorably than they otherwise would. This

You have to be able to roll your eyes up into your skull, down the inside of the back of your head, up your jawbone, and into the sockets again. That's how the writers wrote the character, and the producers have too much integrity to alter the conception.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

We ask people to say, "I am a commitment to …" instead of "I'm committed to …" as a reminder that we are the commitment, we strive to embody its value and contribution, and we're fully accountable for its outcome. The commitment lives inside us and moves out from our center.

it is impossible to cure a political prostitute from whoring'.

Richard Turner

there is one thing we all take from granted: from hunter-gatherers to the Pope, we all live by a moral compass.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

It came to me pretty suddenly one day that parenting is a moral task," a Chicago parent starkly put it, "that the principle of being a mother of a child who is a good person is more important than how much my kids like me or how happy they are in the moment. If my kids were going to be good people, I realized that I couldn't go to them all the time if they cried or always be a fixer or problem solver, that I had to make real demands on them.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

One must not content oneself with small demands but must rise to the thought that all living creatures have to be redeemed. One must not be trivial and irresponsible in heart, but must strive to make deeds prove one's words.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

Bible verses remain true, even if the devil quotes them.

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

It takes backbone to lead the life you want.

A me pare che un uomo che permette al suo consulente matrimoniale di prendere decisioni al posto suo non è…be', non è un uomo vero

that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

Se si vuole fare qualcosa di assolutamente onesto, qualcosa di vero, alla fine si scopre sempre che è una cosa che va fatta da soli.