Quotes About Integrity

judge people by what they do and not what they say they will do.

Often, when a man is young and idealistic, he believes that if he works hard and does the right thing, success will follow.

Barely six months after Ribbon Creek, Krulak had lost eleven Marines in another training accident. How he handled the incident is an example of the public relations axiom, "Tell the truth. Tell it all. And tell it quickly.

Krulak knew he would pay a price, and he still did the right thing. At a time when he had everything to lose, he was the only general in the American military whose sense of duty and love of country were greater than his careerism.

If you knew your job and you did your job, you could not have a better friend in the Corps than General Krulak.

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

That dog is a Marine!

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

There is nothing wrong with the United States--or the world at large--that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).

The Truth At Any Cost Lowers All Other Costs

A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

Never take anything that doesn't belong to you or that you haven't earned," he said, sliding into the car. "You never know who you're stealing from, and what that money means to them.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

I once heard a judge tell a defendant there was a difference between being sorry for his actions and being sorry he got caught

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

They'd had conversations about Sloane's job, defending clients to the best of his abilities no matter his personal feelings about their innocence or guilt.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

Vanpelt was a hack. More often than not, she chose the low-hanging fruit, because she was lazy, not interested in doing any real work to uncover facts. She sought out the sensational stories that would get her face front and center on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts.

People are forgiving, Mr. Coe, but they want accountability.