Quotes About Integrity

Fine feathers don't make fine birds.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

Görünmek istediÄŸin gibi ol.

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

The people of Minnesota value a politician who believes what he says and says what he believes and votes that way.

I think Gore would have been a great president, may well have prevented 9/ 11, and would not have sent us to war in Iraq based on manufactured evidence. And he'd have addressed climate change, which to me is the greatest existential threat facing mankind.

What matters is not what we seem to a random group, but what we know we are. In Schopenhauer's words: 'Every reproach can hurt only to the extent that it hits the mark. Whoever actually knows that he does not deserve a reproach can and will confidently treat it with contempt.

The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we want to live by — rather than merely of how we want things to look.

Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - È›elul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiec?ruia ceea ce merit? atunci când o merit?, de a separa emoÈ›iile care trebuie imediat exprimate fa?? de cei care le iniÈ›iaz?, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu c?tre nevinovaÈ›i.

A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.

Tânjim dup? opere de art? care s? ne compenseze sl?biciunile È™i s? ne ajute s? g?sim calea cea mai viabil?. Consider?m frumoase operele de art? care ne compenseaz? virtuÈ›ile deficitare, respingându-le ca urâte pe cele care ne induc anumite st?ri sau motive de a ne simÈ›i fie ameninÈ›aÈ›i, fie copleÈ™iÈ›i din start. Arta deÈ›ine promisiunea integrit??ii noastre interioare.

falsifications may occasionally need to be committed in the service of a goal higher still than accuracy:

Never at my best when at my best behaviour.

I know what's required. It's perfectly simple: Justice.

Still as I've said all along, you can't polish a turd.

Never be prime minister at the start of a war, Nessie [..] The man that lead you into it isn't the one to lead you out of it.

Aamulla kuningattarella oli vähän nuhaa, ja koska sovittuja tapaamisia ei ollut, hän sanoi olevansa ehkä vilustunut ja jäi vuoteeseen. Se ei ollut hänelle tyypillistä eikä myöskään totta, hän sanoi sen oikeastaan vains siksi että saisi jatkaa lukemista.

There is nothing missing.

Any attempt to improve on God's creation will distance you from God's creation

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.

Time reveals character.