Quotes About Integrity

Si sus actos fueran irreprochables, los francmasones no evitarían con tanto cuidado la luz...

Vestido azul, que pasará a la historia como el objeto de la primera mentira que le dije a mi novio. La primera de unas cuantas. Mentiras nuevas, mentiras frescas, mentiras recién estrenadas. Me pesan en el estómago como una comida mal digerida. Odio decir mentiras. Me gusta pensar que soy una persona sincera. Me gusta experimentar la fortaleza, la energía que a una le da saber que está diciendo la verdad sin fisuras, sin dobleces, sin ocultamientos.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

Uno no puede andar por la vida reprobando a sus rivales y disculpando a sus amigos por el solo hecho de serlo.

Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it].

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

I shall never sacrifice a friend to an ideal. I shall never desert a friend to save an institution. I shall never betray a friend for the sake of the law. Great nations may fall in ruin before I shall sell a friend to preserve them. I pray to the God within me to give me the power to live by this design.

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true—nobody will ever take you seriously.

Keep it like it was.

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Public men are often alarmed into gratitude, seldom shamed into it.

Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Integrity means wholeness, unity; the idea of integrity as a value is the idea of a life lived as a whole rather than as a series of disconnected episodes.

Honest men have very little fun in life. It's a well-known fact.