Quotes About Integrity

Es ist ein Zeichen geistiger Reife, seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn man merkt, dass man im Unrecht ist.

but then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the world, of people who had made life better for other people, or who had done what they had been called to do with honour and without complaint. Her

The important thing is to carry on doing what you're doing,' she said. 'And not to do what you think other people think you should do. You should do what you do as well as you possibly can.

We are not polyester people.

Things I'll never do. You would not feel uncomfortable reading that list, as you will have already admitted that these are things you do not want to do—and will not do.

Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft -- certainly not -- but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.

The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.

But just because somebody has lots of sweets does not mean that he has stolen them. One thing, you see, does not always lead to another.

It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.

but then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the world, of people who had made life better for other people, or who had done what they had been called to do with honour and without complaint.

they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe—you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.

Morality is for everyone and that is what

Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs.

There's no excuse," said Isabel firmly. "Biscuits are trivial, but lies are not.

There was corruption at every turn, and those who stood for honesty and integrity were more and more vulnerable, more and more isolated amongst the hordes of people who simply had no moral sense. And

People who looked after animals were by and large kind people; they simply practised kindness, unlike those who made much of it. Thus, thought Isabel, are virtues best cultivated—in discretion and silence, away from the gaze of others, known only to those who act virtuously and to those who benefit from what is done.

Sometimes the truth can't be put on anybody's bill," Mma Makutsi pronounced, and then continued, "but it's still important to get to it, Mma—to get to the truth behind all the…all the things that cover up the truth.

a list of people who drive Mercedes-Benzes, and he checks to see if they have made up for it by being kind to people.

A man could be a hereditary ruler, or an elected president, but not be a gentleman, and that would show in his every deed. But if you had a leader who was a gentleman, with all that this meant, then you were lucky indeed.

The country must be full of liars," she continued. "There must be liars around every corner. Liars hiding behind every bush. Liars just waiting to tell lies about something. Unrepentant liars. Old liars, young liars; perhaps even babies whose first word is a lie. Perhaps

I promise to share all my worldly goods-including letters, parcels and other items of correspondence, opened or unopened.

But she would not participate in that sort of thing, even if it meant that she lost the election. If you won on the basis of lies and false promises—bribes, really—then your victory would be a hollow one.

He decided there was a lot to be said for bulldozers. They were honest vehicles—honest in the sense that they did not purport to be anything other than what they were.

If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.