Quotes About Integrity

Que un centinela se emborrache y luego deserte de su puesto y entregue su arma supone combinar un pecado mortal con un delito imperdonable.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

To be without silver is better than to be without honor.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

There are rights that you may lose without losing your honour; what makes you lose your honour is not to fight them.

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.

believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

I know that if everyone is a hero, then no one truly is. I concede the term is thrown around far too casually.

I always thought Obama was "presidential." He treated the office of the presidency with respect. I rarely saw him in the Oval Office with a coat and tie, and he always conducted himself with dignity. He was a man of personal integrity, and in his personal behavior - at least to the extent I could observe it - he was an excellent role model...I thought Obama was first-rate in both intellect and temperament." Page 300

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.

An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

Story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.