Quotes About Integrity

trust that the principle of reciprocity is true

There are many things I have done in the past that I am not proud of and would not do again.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ? Martin Luther King Jr.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders. -- Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller

A promise made is a debt unpaid

To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is.

God does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; He calls us to become the right person.

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

Be not another if thou canst be thyself.

If I tarted up in a nice suit and a clean collar, I could spend hours and hours every week jawing to Rotary Clubs about what fine music is and how I am just as good as they are. I'm not as good as they are, praise be God! I am a honest citizen, I am not fit to black their boots.

We must offer him Christian compassion and understanding. But we must also give him truth. Compassion doesn't mean lying to someone to save their feelings.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.

It was one of the good things about him. Whatever he might not be telling you, what he did tell you was the truth.

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

She was unambiguously herself.

She had told the frog, Certainly, anything; and her father had brought her up to understand that she must always keep her word, the more so because as Princess there was no one who could force her to.

Or that Ayn Rand and Jesus are truly strange bedfellows? Why can't we say this? Because we are afraid. Why are we afraid? Because we care too much about what people think of us, and not enough about whether we say what needs to be said at a time like this.

Da una parte c'è la pressione delle convinzioni nostre e della società, condizionate come sono, dalla necessità e dai tempi in cui viviamo. Dall'altra, c'è l'esortazione del cuore che ci dice: Resta sempre fedele a te stesso. Sopra ogni altra cosa.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself—in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.