Quotes About Integrity

Why isn't he dead?' he said eventually. 'That is a good question. After all, meaning well hasn't been a completely adequate shield in this century of ours.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Disloyalty does not develop suddenly one day or grow quickly in just a month.

A person of influence demonstrates character, strength, humility, integrity and vision that motivate and inspire others. Influence is when you make others successful!

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department. - John Barrett Jr.

I have affirmed one truth I will carry with me for all time: Apart from the dear Lord Himself, my children and my integrity are my greatest treasure, and having them safe with me now, I am the richest man in the world.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

We will not run, Paul said. We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.

Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

But the test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.