Quotes About Integrity

If you fishin' for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend... But if you is lookin' for a real friend, then I'll be one. Forever.

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.

All the romance of feeling that men in high places are above personal considerations and act only from motives of pure patriotism, and for the general good of the public has been destroyed. An inside view proves too truly very much the reverse. —ULYSSES S. GRANT to WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, September 18, 1867

Look, men, there is Jackson34 standing like a stone wall.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Trust, But Verify...Ronald Reagan

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983

I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."1

We think it's okay to talk to others about the problem we're having with so-and-so, but we never go straight to the source. We're guilty of slander or gossip. Even if what we say is true, it's still gossip.

La verdadera nobleza es caminar toda tu vida con pasos atinados, con pasos que te salen del corazón; es que tus actos estén de acuerdo con tus ideas, aunque el precio sea alto. Y no imponer eses ideas a nadie y ser modesto y compasivo en tu grandeza.

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

Nadie se resignaba ya a ser en parte bueno y en parte malo, como siempre habían sido, sino que, enardecidos por la grandilocuencia de sus propias mentiras todos querían hacerse pasar por puros y perfectos.

She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of small talk, and while others chatted, over meals or an evening drink, she was always attentive, but often silent. Her relationships, however, were deeply affectionate and caring.

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.

you can't be anybody but yourself. At the end of the day, you're stuck with that

We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.