Quotes About Integrity

The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.

It refuses to pursue business (even though there are big volumes to be had) that doesn't involve value-added for its clients in some meaningful way, rather than simply benefit from labor cost arbitrage.

And, on a bad day, the methods and motives of the source will be challenged

I don't care whether they like me or not. Everybody's stupid, that's what I think. I care if I like me, that's what I truly care about.

Corruption is like a lily—brush against it, however lightly, and some of the pollen smears on you. Therefore choose your friends and your employers wisely.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

Your daughter's a cheat and a liar," the father said

You're cheating people who trust you.

Truth is more important than modesty

Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine. - Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre. - Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit. - Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.

Never do anything by halves if you wanna get away with it.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Life is too short to help make a world you don't want to live in.)

Sometimes we don't throw ourselves into it because we believe the small things are beneath us. What we don't understand is that what appear to be the small things are actually the big things. They're where it starts, and throwing yourself into them inevitably creates new opportunities for you.

Instead of speculating about the end times and writing terrible novels about people being left behind and preaching ridiculous sermons connecting Iran to the book of Daniel, it's better if people agree that we aren't going to worry about what we can't control and we are going to become far more intentional about what we can control—loving our neighbor, becoming people of character and integrity, taking better care of the earth.

None of my assets are hidden," said Darren.

Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell.

Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself].

A candidate who, night after night, tries "to capitalize on the emotion of honest patriotism, cheapens the impulse.… It is like playing on the sacredness of mother love for the purposes of promotion.

I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said")—in

That campaign raises, in fact, one of the greatest issues invoked by the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson; the relationship between means and ends. Many of the ends of Lyndon Johnson's life, civil rights, in particular, perhaps, but others too, were noble. Heroic advances in the cause of social justice....Those noble ends would not have been possible without the means, far from noble, that brought Johnson to power...To what extent are ends inseparable from means?