Quotes About Integrity

As a coach, I am committed to not only developing well-rounded athletes but also good human beings.

Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.

I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.

Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren't there in my tough times.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

In the West, you take people at their word.

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

My experience at West Point and my service as an army officer have molded the way I look at the world.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

An ideologue does not bend to what is popular, what will gain him power, or what is practical. He simply does what he thinks is right.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.