Quotes About Integrity

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

In his analysis of what was wrong, the author of this article identified in his final paragraph a profound ambivalence in the American soul. America, he noted, was deeply double-minded, even as the nation sought to restore some sense of moral integrity: "The longing for moral regeneration must constantly vie with an equally strong aspect of America's national character, self-indulgence. It is an inner tension that may animate political life for years to come.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

It is not enough to do good things and live a righteous life. God expects us to have pure motives and a sincere heart.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Any measure used for control is unreliable."10 To put it another way, anything that can be measured and rewarded will be gamed.

I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

Dopóki cz?owiek nie musi siebie sprawdzi? w czynie, mo?e si? oszukiwa? bez ?adnych ogranicze?.

Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child's integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

In our neighborhood, the problem wasn't the person who made the mistake; it was the person who acknowledged the truth.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?

These things have happened so often that it becomes clear: a man like this did not die because of what he did but because of what he was. We are the ones who have the privilege of having things happen to us because of what we do. Not everyone is so lucky.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.