Quotes About Integrity

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your soul is an island, Ash. It's as much a part of the continent as your body is. It is immune to being bought and sold because the original owner will not release the title.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

However you look at it, trust is probably the single most important ingredient in any personal interaction or relationship.

J. D. set his phone down and looked over at her. "You know, we really put Bobby on the spot in there today." "Well, he's

When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don't mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They're often the worst liars of the lot.

Uno empieza siendo idealista, moralmente fuerte, si se quiere, pero entonces la ropa de tu fuerza moral se va desgastando poco a poco hasta que ya no puedes más y haces cosas que nunca pensaste que harías, o no haces cosas que siempre pensaste que harías.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

A man does the right thing, does his duty and does it bravely.

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it.

In un epoca di relativismo morale, dare la tua parola non significa tanto, immagino. Ma mio padre mi aveva insegnato che è l'unica cosa che hai che nessuno potrà mai portarti via. L'unica cosa che puoi dare e allo stesso tempo mantenere.

Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies, they get a free coffee, a sandwich. They take what comes, they're not aggressive. The meat eaters are the predators, they go after what they want—the drug rips, the mob payoffs, the cash.

It's a bitter lesson—you think you can rent your soul, but it's always a sale, and all sales are final.

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

Por esas razones —dice Bernie—, me opongo al pacto que has hecho con Vecchio y te insto encarecidamente a que reflexiones. Danny Ryan, tú eres un hombre sensato. —Solo será esta vez —dice Danny. —El alma no se alquila. Solo se vende.

And I don't know how to tell you. I can't do this anymore. Go from one life to another, and this life, this life, feels . . . Stupid. Phony. This is not who I am.

Over my forty-year career as a defense attorney, I regularly came into contact with people who lied, cheated, and tried to bend the system so that they would come out on top. Most of them worked for the government. —OSCAR GOODMAN, BEING OSCAR

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.

Primum non nocere. First do no harm.

Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

You're too cheap. You'd make me nervous to work for you. I'd come to you for a gun, you wouldn't want to give me more than one bullet.

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty