Quotes About Integrity

elated.") And anytime he had to question someone's loyalty.

right—secrets and lies are really the same thing

Children are not good at living a lie. Children have too much energy, are too impatient, and ask too many questions.

Oh, how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I'd still have two of the same to live.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.

Swiping's bad but if I was a swiper I'd swipe good stuff like cars and chocolates.

The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.

Bad people very often do one good thing.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instance losing its integrity; it has not the vitality and force of a single living man. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.

A la mayoría le importan poco los ideales o la integridad. Lo que anhela es exhibirse. Cuanto más horribles son las contorsiones mentales, mayor es el deleite y los bravos de la masa.

El anarquismo [...] defiende la acción directa, el rechazo y la resistencia frente a las leyes y las restricciones económicas, sociales y morales. Aunque el rechazo y la resistencia sean ilegales. En ello descansa la salvación del ser humano. Todo lo ilegal necesita de la integridad, de la independencia y el coraje.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good, sound women the world can lean on. Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Cowardice is just thinking of your own miserable skin instead of somebody else's.

be as good as gold.

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something.

Well, young man, have you found anyone worthy of your respect? Artemis smiled back. Yes, he said. I believe I have.

Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.