Quotes About Integrity

Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

I'll go see her tonight,' I said. I felt I was a person of my word, and by saying something I could make it so. It was less like integrity perhaps and more like magic.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!

If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You've got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can't really achieve anything great without the help of others.

And science is about facts, and morality is about values. They are not the same thing and they don't grow together. No one can find a value on the slide of a microscope.

The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.

Visiem zin?ms, ka ?imenes gods ir atkar?gs no t?s sieviešu uzved?bas.

Neapg?žami ir mor?les principi, nevis zin?tniski fakti.

It wouldn't be a bad idea if there were something to distinguish good men from bad.

At the root of innumerable wrongs in our civilization is the discrepancy between word, creed and deed. It is the weakness of churches, states, parties, and persons. It gives men and institutions split personalities.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)

There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.

We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd. 'Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren't going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd.

A name is what a man makes it," I

I've written all these stories without any pornography, without any obscenity. I grew up among sailors and miners and lumberjacks and the roughest kind men in the world, but I never found it necessary to use all that in the stories. I can make them real without that. I think much of that kind of writing is a coverup for lack of real skill.