Quotes About Integrity

It's a living soul I want one of you to show me, the soul of a person willing to work with, and never criticize, either God or a fellow human being. One who will never fail, or have experiences he does not want; who will never give in to anger, jealousy or the desire to dominate others.

If you decide to do something, don't shrink from being seen doing it, even if the majority of people disapprove. If you're wrong to do it, then you should shrink from doing it altogether; but if you're right, then why worry how people will judge you?

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it.

Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.

A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable.

What, then, is your own? The way you live your life.

endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.

which would you rather have—money to share with others, or loyal and honest friends?

If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.

In this body, this universe, this community, it is inevitable that each of us faces some such event. [28] Your job, then, is to appear before the court, say what you have to say and make the best of the situation. [29] Then the judge declares you guilty. 'I wish you well, judge. I did my part, you can decide if you did yours.' Because the judge runs a risk too, don't forget.

Jos joku kertoo sinulle, että se ja se panettelee sinua, älä ryhdy puolustautumaan panetteluja vastaan, vaan sano: Hän ei nähtävästi tiennyt muita vikojani, sillä muutoin hän ei olisi tyytynyt mainitsemaan vain noita.

The upshot is that if you identify self-interest with piety, honesty, country, parents and friends, then they are all secure.

A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.

But I'll get money, and then share it." If you can acquire riches without losing your honor and self-respect, then do it. But if you lose what is dearest to you, no amount of money can make up for it.

the Oracle at Delphi—once threw a man out of the temple for abandoning his friend.

Be the same person in public as in private.

Refuse to participate in gossip—tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.

What is my position in society?" The one best suited to your talents, which you can hold with honor. Each person has a vital role in society; you are important right where you are. But if you lose your honor in striving for greater (perceived) significance, you become useless.

Avoid taking oaths

keep your language free of obscenities. Do not dip into the gutter in search of cheap laughs.

if you know you are in the right, why fear those who misjudge you?

Since I can get greatness of soul and nobility from myself, why should I look to get a farm, or money, or some office, from you? I will not be so insensible of what I already own.

Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.

He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.