Quotes About Integrity

If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don't try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, 'Yes, and he doesn't know the half of it, because he could have said more

Fools follow after vanity. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates. —General George S. Patton Jr.

and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for.

Life offers more than one option for doing the right thing.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.

they are not tempted to use the slime of frustrated souls as mortar in the building of a new world.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

No matter how long it takes, always pay a motherfucker back. Whatever they did to you, you take them double. You make them not forget to never fuck with you again. You make them piss when they hear your name. You make them turn the other way and start running when they see you coming." "How

Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but I can smell 'em.

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free" phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

E vinovat de adulter? Atunci e vinovat si de casatorie. Cum se poate merge in fata unui primar sau a unui preot pentru a primi garantia ca niciodata un barbat nu se va atinge de alta femeie decat de nevasta lui? Ce om in toate mintile va sustine asa ceva altfel decat constrans? Oprobiul meu se indreapta impotriva casatoriilor si juramintelor de castitate, nu impotriva adulterului, care mi se pare o desteptare sanatoasa a naturii.

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu'avez-vous fait jusqu'à présent pour la morale ? Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j'ai offert mon exemple.

Le mal, c'est la promesse qu'on ne tient pas...

En amour, on appelle ça un étalon; en politique, un démagogue. Le secret de la réussite, c'est de ne penser qu'à la jouissance de l'autre.

Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

We are what we do.

We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.