Quotes About Integrity

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;

It not nice to speak ill of the dead, one say, but the truth never can be ill.

what is good is integral to itself. That is also why it is not worthwhile to change yourself, your hair or skin or eyes. What is integral to you will always be superior to what is tacked on, simply because it is yours.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.

He say to tell the truth, Shug act more manly than most men. I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.

We always hear about the scandals of the few, but what of the goodness of the majority?

A man of action acts. He doesn't talk or think. Doesn't repeat himself. Nope. Just acts. Is what he does. That's how you judge a man. Not by what he says but by what he does.

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

movie Twelve Angry Men.

Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite.

Scientist alone is true poet.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that self honesty can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

At Sanford's 1998 funeral in Duke Chapel, childhood friend Dickson Philips eulogized this Eagle from Troop 20 in the town of Laurinburg. To the assembled crowd, he eloquently said, "[Terry Sanford] took an oath when he was twelve years old and kept it. It started out, 'On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country,' and included such things as 'help other people at all times.' He believed it: He was the eternal Boy Scout.

If you stay neutral, you're in the wrong as an Eagle Scout. In my vision, being an Eagle Scouts is actively trying to do good.

Are you the man that says nothing or the man that acts upon his beliefs?

To a good man, yes, one who knows her in all her moods, who can laugh at her follies and rejoice in her virtues; who will not allow her to give in to her worst instincts; one who knows her, and who, knowing her, will still love her, and love her as she should be loved.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.