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Quotes About Integrity

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
~ Jewish proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
~ Jewish proverb
Your friend has a friend don't tell him.
~ Jewish proverb
My only role and responsibilities as a king in short is like dessup
~ Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Chairman Mao taught us that "inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance." How
~ Ji-li Jiang
What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.
~ Ji-li Jiang
That doesn't mean that you should make up a story about something you never did!" Dad's voice grew still louder. "So what if I never listened to foreign radio broadcasts? They'll stop beating me if I confess to it, won't they? 'Leniency to those who confess, and severity to those who resist.' Look at my face, Lao Jiang. I can't stand it anymore… .
~ Ji-li Jiang
Never go behind someone's back. If you need to meet with people other than the person you're currently working with, make sure you find a valid reason for it and, if possible, engage your current contact in setting it up.
~ Jill Konrath
There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren't really important," [King] said. "But we will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize the ends are not cut off from the means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in the process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
~ Jill Lepore
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.
~ Jill Lepore
In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones.
~ Jill Lepore
Right wrongs no man.
~ Jill Lepore
It seems to me unthinkable that a man with his background of slander, abuse, innuendo, expediency and resort to all the most devious political devices should ever occupy an office which we have tried for generations to exalt in the esteem of young people and the world
~ Jill Lepore
Well, this time you're just going to have to stop yourself." Straightening up, Rupert grinned. "We don't want this to be spoiled, do we? Trust me, some secrets are better kept.
~ Jill Mansell
Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection." "It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter. "Thank you," said Peter.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.
~ Jill Scott
I am moved by a person's honest actions and how they treat those around them. These are the qualities I look for in those I wish to have close to me.
~ Jill Thompson
How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?
~ Jim Berg
It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
~ Jim Bouton
And I don't like the Mantle who refused to sign baseballs in the clubhouse before the games. Everybody else had to sign, but Little Pete forged Mantle's signature. So there are thousands of baseballs around the country that have been signed not by Mickey Mantle, but by Pete Previte.
~ Jim Bouton
Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.
~ Jim C. Hines
You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.
~ Jim C. Hines