Quotes About Integrity

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

A very good epitaph," commented Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't wish a better. We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones nothing more need be added.

If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world.

We must be just, even when we are terribly hurt.

But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.

there was certainly no need of fine-tooth combs in this case.

Hem Bayan Allan elimizde bir kan?t olmad??? sürece insanlar?n bize doÄŸruyu söylediklerinden ÅŸüphe etmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyledi.

If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think?

Art?k derslerimle çok daha fazla ilgileneceÄŸim, dedi Anne keyifle, çünkü bir amac?m var. Bay Allan hayatta herkesin bir amac? olmas? ve içtenlikle onun peÅŸine düÅŸmesi gerektiÄŸini söylüyor. Yaln?zca, sayg?n bir amaç olmas?na dikkat etmeliymiÅŸiz.

it has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

We shouldn't have to be faithful, we should want to be faithful.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.

She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could.