Quotes About Integrity

You have to choose: death or lies.

You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

Life is long, and a person's character generally catches up to him.

but I'll be honest was an indication of guilt, right up there with ly words.

You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.

People who switch their niceness on and off are not to be trusted.

That's a lovely idea, Diana," said Anne enthusiastically. "Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris

I think it's sorter real dastardly to break a promise you make to a child.

She could never, in any words, deny her love for Teddy. It was much a part of herself that it has a divine right to truth.

This book may or may not succeed. I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.

I didn't believe he would, but I refused to bet, because I wanted to tell Mrs. Allan all about everything, and I felt sure it wouldn't do to tell her that. It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife.

Never write a line you would be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

Non dire sciocchezze e, per giunta, in latino.

È molto più facile essere un eroe che un galantuomo. Eroi si può essere una volta tanto; galantuomini, si dev'esser sempre.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

If Richard trusted anyone with his life, it would have been Kendrick of Artane. But trust Kendrick with his woman? Not a chance in hell. He strode across the lists, intent on intercepting Artane's lad before he spotted Jessica.

Among the innumerable books on Addy's shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: 'What is moral is what you feel good after. What is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Il modo in cui ci comportiamo con gli altri, anche nelle cose più piccole, è una misura del nostro valore come esseri umani.