Quotes About Integrity

But in a situation like Sixth Army's, the German military code demands that when lives are at stake, the officers must take second place to the men. It

He wrote, "It is so humiliating to me to shake hands with known and confessed murderers.

Coveting power for power's sake was a "base" pursuit, he wrote, adding, "But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing.

He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.

Coveting power for power's sake was a "base" pursuit

to remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.

It is," she wrote, "an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.

These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Be true to yourself, to your best self.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

I wanted to be a good person, compassionate, regardless of what was said or done to me. That was the standard I held for myself, the way I'd managed to survive all those years. I wouldn't give in to hatred. "I

Believe me, Paul, when you're in a jam the truth is the only thing solid enough and substantial enough to rely on.

Personally, I wouldn't have a man who was true to me, not that I'd want him to flaunt his affairs in my face or to the neighborhood, but a man who doesn't step out once in a while isn't worth the powder and shot to blow him to hell.

I'm going to tell you something about myself. I pay my own way as I go through the world, and I want the privilege of living my own life. I left North Mesa because I couldn't do just that. I have my own code, my own creed, and my own ideas. I try to be true to them, all of them. I hate hypocrisy. I like fair play. I want to live my own life in my own way, and I'm willing to let other people live their lives in their way.

There are no ethics when you're dealing with the police. Or I should say when the police are dealing with you. You're supposed to be bound by ethics. The police don't have ethics. They act on the assumption that they're 'getting the truth,' whereas you are 'protecting a criminal

he did not believe in philanthropy, thinking that the ultimate purpose of life was to develop character; that the more a person came to depend on outside assistance, the more his character was weakened.

he'll have to cut out all of his gambling associations. He'll have to tell the court who got this money and what was done with it. He'll have to quit acting the part of a spoiled kid with an indulgent sister, and learn to stand on his own two feet, and it may make a man of him.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.