Quotes About Integrity

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. W

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You're okay. You'll always be okay.

In the West you will find men like that, fellows with gentle hands and hard, flat voices. Horses and dogs are instinctively loyal to such fellows, while yellowbellies and equivocators instinctively fear them. They make mediocre husbands, good officers of the law, and top-notch bank robbers.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.

I can't stand a damn liar and have no respect for one. But an artful exaggerator always gets my full attention and my undying respect. —Nat Love

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

I don't get it," Raul said. "Why all this macho?" "When I say act like a man," Leonard said, "I mean act honorably and with courage. Macho has been turned into a bad word by turds who act like beasts, not men.

Problem with this world is we've lost the idea of shame and guilt. We need a little of that. No one thinks they ever do bad anymore. They just do different.

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

On his desk in the Oval Office was a sign that read, "The Buck Stops Here," and as Truman would later observe, "The President—whoever he is—has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job.