Quotes About Integrity

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.

Live your epitaph

It just seems our species is happier when we are good. Goodness is not guaranteed. A life of principle requires practice…. from Unless, a novel by Carol Shields

When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.

There are worse things than telling a lie.

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.

For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Forgiveness is not a sign of weakness; it is an attribute of bravery.

Happiness is there when you are morally clear to yourself.

Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

To be a success, be yourself.

What you do defines you.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

Your kindness becomes your courage.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

A central tenet of academic freedom is that a scholar's academic work and politics are separate and distinct from each other.

He doesn't talk about his past, or his future. He passionately wants to make something of his life, to make an offering to the world. And to his family. He doesn't want to make letterheads! How can he be true to himself and keep the bond with his family?

That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.