Quotes About Integrity

You don't have to be famous of rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person

Awareness of the little ways that we tend to be dishonest with ourselves leads to great strides in applying honesty and integrity to all our interactions.

May my words be truthful, encouraging and humble. May my words be kind and filled with care.

The spiritual life... is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

and confronting the civic hypocrites who put care in the language but seldom in the budget.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.

We don't change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and then, those tasks accomplished, to bring us to the acme of integrity, of wisdom, of eldership in the community of the world. It is a process of ripening as we go, getting stronger, getting more caring, becoming more procreative, sharing more wisdom as we grow—so that those who come after us can walk a clearer path.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Meanwhile, in our society we face not only persecution of people with diverse expressions of gender and sexuality, but also the prospect of doing permanent harm to the integrity of the gene pool of our species, thereby damaging our species for posterity.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are.

You want the freedom to sleep around. I'm not willing to give you that. I want more. Sounds like we have a fundamental difference of opinion here, and I'm not going to try and change you. But I'll tell you one thing, Ruger- I deserve to be with someone who gives a shit about me, as a person. Someone who values me enough not to fuck other women. I'd rather be alone the rest of my life than settle for what you're offering. Consider yourself a hell of a booty call, but that's it. We clear?

Well I don't care how other people live" I said. "If they want to let their men sleep around, that's their business. But I'll be damned if I'll put up with it. Not good enough for me, and no way I want Noah growing up thinking that's how you treat a woman. Ruger can take his offer, stick it on a fork, and shove it up his ass. Now I need to find a job and somewhere to live, because I'm sure as hell not living with him any longer.

But I never cheated on your mom. Never wanted to. You need a man who feels the same way, and don't stop until you find him.