Quotes About Integrity

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

He taught me the importance of commitment, of doing what you say you're going to do. It really isn't complicated. If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you don't plan on doing it, then don't overcommit.

Trust opens people up to give you the truth, rather than just telling you what you want to hear.

The point is that if Christianity is compatible with anything and everything it is nothing.

Reason and be open to reason; yield to principle, not pressure.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Seiner Funktion nach darf der Abgeordnete kein Zyniker sein, schließt doch Zynismus die Zustimmung zur Zerstörung ein und enthält so eine Absage an den Humanismus, dem sich das Parlament verdankt und den es immer wieder auf den neuesten Stand bringen sollte.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

The danger here is that, in trying to prove to yourself something you do not need to prove, you will behave in a way that is untrue to you, and place your soul in danger.

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

Sins are seeds. You plant them, then eat the fruit they produce.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." -Rollo May

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)