Quotes About Integrity

Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

Call the mania intellectual integrity, call it impertinence if you will. In any event that impertinence, that intellectual integrity, is one of my most conspicuous traits and one that differentiates me from the majority of my contemporaries.

und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.

It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

no excuses. I accept full responsibility

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.

For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who'd saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.