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Quotes About Integrity

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
~ Ayn Rand
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
~ Samuel Smiles
I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.
~ Uriah Hall
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
~ Penn Jillette
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
~ Friedrich Schiller
For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
~ Anne Cameron
Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything
~ Michael Josephson
You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.
~ Davina Veronica
I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
~ Dorothy Allison
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
~ Spike Lee
I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
~ Tiger Woods
He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.
~ Laozi
I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.
~ Michael Angarano
That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.
~ Ron Rosenbaum
I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.
~ Caroline Myss
Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.
~ David Ogilvy
I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.
~ Elie Wiesel
I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.
~ Daveigh Chase
I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
~ Sean Penn