Quotes About Integrity

Perché uno deve stare al gioco, se sa che il gioco fa schifo? Non è questione di coerenza astratta, è questione di non dimenticarti chi sei.

Voglio solo fare cose che mi entusiasmano. Cose in cui credo totalmente, senza nessun genere di riserva. Senza nessun patteggiamento o adattamento alla realtà o abbassamento di soglie.

Park rangers, including those at the highest ranks, have been disciplined, frivolously indicted, and even fired because they told the truth about living, working, and dying in a national park.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they had been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat." —Cicely Tyson

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

I'm sure that's okay for a magazine or a book," he went on. "But this is the SAT. You can't get away with that stuff on the SAT.

As my grandmother told me — never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it. So ignore him and vote, Florida!"

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing

Sólo la integridad conduce a la claridad.

During those snowy New England winters, besides learning to rise at five to study calculus and trudge two miles through the drifts for breakfast down the road, he had suppressed some tremendous element in himself that took form in a prudish virginity. While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass: moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.

Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. Perhaps you can comment out the offending code, or display a "Not Implemented" message, or substitute dummy data instead. Take some action to prevent further damage and to show that you're on top of the situation.

Andrew J. Bacevich