Quotes About Integrity

N'essayez pas de devenir un homme qui a du succès. Essayez de devenir un homme qui a de la valeur.

The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Je méprise un homme qui peut être satisfait par une moelle épinière, cet homme ne mérite pas un cerveau humain.

Cercare di diventare non un uomo di successo, ma un uomo di valore

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

In politics not only are leaders lacking, but the independence of spent and the sense of justice of the citizen have to a great extent declined.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Las gentes me cortejan en la medida que no las moleste. Pero cuando pretendo servir a objetivos que no les convienen pasan immediatamente al insulto, mientras que los indiferentes se esconden detras de su cobardía

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

Das gute Beispiel ist nicht eine Möglichkeit, andere Menschen zu beeinflussen, es ist die Einzige.

A un hombre interiormente libre, y escrupuloso, se le puede destruir, pero no se puede hacer de él ni un esclavo ni una herramienta ciega.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

Vivisezione. Nessuno scopo è così alto da giustificare metodi così indegni.

You are still a person who completed a perfect project, but never a good person for doing so." "How, then, do I become an incompetent or bad person?" "You don't! When you do incompetent or evil acts, you become a person who acted badly—never a bad person.

She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.