Quotes About Integrity

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Power mattered. But in the end, for Jimmy, what kind of human beings we aspired to be mattered more. And I am convinced he was absolutely right, especially for our after times.

If the condition of the love of country is a lie, the love itself, no matter how genuine, is a lie.

Religious show it with actions not with the lips.

If you love someone, let them go. And if you have to point a gun at them to get them to talk to you, it's probably not meant to be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

When we get to know someone personally and can work with him or her on a more personal level, this is Level Two, which is essential for real help to occur. Level Two trust implies that we are willing to make promises and will keep them. Level Two openness implies that with respect to our joint task we will share all relevant information and will not lie to one another.

Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely