Quotes About Integrity

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.

you will not be good teachers if you focus only upon what you do and not upon what you are.

What greater good could there be in a man's life than to lift the oppression that destroys them, what greater honor is there?

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

Rudyard Kipling

promised his love to keep her quiet—that he had never

By the Bull that bought me I made a promise—a little promise. Only thy coat is lacking before I keep my word.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.

All Pathans are not faithless—except in horseflesh.

nothin', or his edukashin which he niver got? You that think ye know things, answer me that. But I found no answer. I was wondering how long Ortheris, in the bank of the river, would hold out, and whether I should be forced to help him to desert, as I had given my word.

If you haven't the money to buy the quality you want, go without, don't compromise.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.