Quotes About Integrity

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong, Your Eminence. The consequences may not turn out as we intend; it may prove in time that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong. The only guide to a person's actions can ever be their conscience, for it is in our conscience that we most clearly hear the voice of God.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez

What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for?

Cosa si può fare, disse, se si dedica la vita a smascherare i criminali, e a poco a poco ci si accorge che i veri criminali sono quelli per cui si lavora? Cosa si può fare quando tutti ti dicono di non preoccuparti perché tanto non ci puoi fare niente ed è successo molto tempo fa? Adesso Charlie lo guardava in un modo diverso. Immagino che si perda la ragione. Oppure può succedere di peggio. La si può trovare.

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -

and then I shall face the politician's worst nightmare: the requirement to give a straight answer.

Always very pious, these crooked accountants,' observed Cicero.)

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Faith that cannot withstand the truth is not a faith worth holding.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible.

We all have our battle scars, Kentucky. The ones who wear them on the outside are just a little more honest about it, that's all.

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

If you are a boss, ask yourself: When you look back at how you've treated followers, peers, and superiors, in their eyes, will you have earned the right to be proud of yourself? Or will they believe that you ought to be ashamed of yourself and embarrassed by how you have trampled on others' dignity day after day?

the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

Winning is a wonderful thing if you can help and respect others along the way. But if you stomp on others as you climb the ladder and treat them like losers once you reach the top, my opinion is that you debase your own humanity and undermine your team or organization.

Life is too short to put up with assholes.

Third, and finally, if you want people to believe the system is fair and effective, it's essential to be tough on the most powerful, profitable, and well-known jerks. If you enforce the rule only with the weak performers, people who are easily replaceable, or who deliver bad news and have the gumption to disagree with superiors—and you allow powerful assholes to run roughshod over anyone they please—people will smell your hypocritical bullshit from a mile away.

We believe that it is an injustice to the integrity of our teachers and students to simply advocate that educators focus on the use of rewards to control behavior rather than grapple with the deeper issues of (a) why many students are not interested in learning within our educational system and (b) how intrinsic motivation and self-regulation can be promoted among these students. (p. 50)

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

There's an old saying in the Two Rivers Rand said dryly. 'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' Another said, The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.