Quotes About Integrity

I'm proud of you. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. Be proud of yourself.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I have discovered that to

I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do.

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so," Chade said neutrally. "Even when they must know better

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.

Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.

Is there no such thing as a loyal courtier? I think not.

the most common model for ministry now is someone who is well married (preferably with children), respected, pious, and doesn't "cause trouble.

Make you mess your message.

use your gifts and dreams for good

Wewene, I say to myself: in a good time, in a good way. There are no shortcuts. It must unfold in the right way, when all the elements are present, mind and body harnessed in unison.

Paying attention, being prepared and patient, and doing it right the first time: the skill and the values were so closely entwined that fire making became for us an emblem of a certain kind of virtue.

Restoring a habitat, no matter how good intentioned, produces casualties. We set ourselves us as arborators of what is good, when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests. By what we want.

...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....

I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy and the dogs that talk revolution, drunk with talk, liars and believers. I believe in my tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," said the gamey black-maned wild boar tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

I didn't trust you because I liked you. I trusted you because you earned it." -Becky

When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.

Jack narrowed his eyes. "Why can't you be just a hundred percent good or a hundred percent bad? Why do you have to keep me all confused all the time?

It's rude to discuss your wife with your girlfriend

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. —Mother Teresa