Quotes About Integrity

Only the good deserve to hope.

Hey, you're supposed to be my grape, Lydia McCarthy. Why are you letting another man squish you behind my back?

It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.

I never smile unless I mean it.

An it harm none, do what ye will.

Indigos disrespect and dislike anyone who's disingenuous. Indigos can feel phoniness in other people, and they won't be phony themselves. Indigos would rather be punished than say something contrary to their feelings. You

The person you are when no one's looking, or when no one else knows who you are...that's the person you really are!

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.

Trust comes through honesty.

from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

Love shouldn't have to wear disguises.

Mountaintop experiences and spectacular miracles won't create faithfulness without a lifestyle that supports it.

Some people are just like that, Abigail. If it's good for them, then it's good. If it's bad for them, then it's bad. They rearrange morality to suit their ambitions. Nat simply

But it was more than that and her fried chicken. Her passion for righteousness was stronger than our frenzy.

Thirdly, the advice is not to dash out and impress others by posing, pretending or downright lying about one's successfulness. The only one to impress, at least at first, is yourself, and that only to the extent of making for yourself a congenial working-atmosphere. The recommendation, once more, is simply this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.