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Quotes About Integrity

Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Discipline must come from trust and confidence.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
That is the way a whore talks. A whore is also a woman, but I am not a whore. You'll be one. Not through you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... that will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ---Ernest Hemingway
~ Ernest Hemingway
You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all
~ Ernest Hemingway
Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Quién va a corromperle a usted? ¿Quién corrompe a un joven como usted, que bebe alcohol de quemar, con una botella de Marsala?
~ Ernest Hemingway
no good writer can do his job working in a fascist state, which is built on lies.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything you do to someone you love out of pleasure is the most honorable.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The people you work with should be either fully trusted or not trusted at all, so one should decide, who deserves to be trusted
~ Ernest Hemingway
Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They
~ Ernest Hemingway
Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Only dead fish swim with the current.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
The remedy for "keeping something to oneself" is not "letting it all hang out," which is a modern-day perversion of pervasiveness.
~ Ernest Kurtz
Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Ownership is not about possession; it is about responsibility. What you own matters far less than what you take ownership for. What you take responsibility for is far more important than what you think you own.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus