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Quotes About Integrity

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.
~ Sarah Winnemucca
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
~ James A. Baldwin
There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
~ Mos Def
I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.
~ Edward R. Murrow
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.
~ Dave Ramsey
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects
~ Vinod Rai
Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
~ Billy Corgan
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
~ C. S. Lewis
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
~ Confucius
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.
~ Larisa Kuznetsova
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.
~ Lewis M. Branscomb
Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
A "self-leader" is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.' 'An omelette?' 'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Terror is an emanation of virtue.
~ Amitav Ghosh
My father used to say: If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books, you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.)
~ Amos Oz
Il compromesso è considerato come una mancanza di integrità, di dirittura morale, di consistenza, di onestà. Il compromesso puzza, è disonesto. Non nel mio vocabolario. Nel mio mondo, la parola compromesso è sinonimo di vita. E dove c'è vita ci sono compromessi. Il contrario di compromesso non è integrità e nemmeno idealismo e nemmeno determinazione o devozione. Il contrario di compromesso è fanatismo.
~ Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.') On
~ Amos Oz
Do you know what the main thing is—the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency. And maybe kindness too. Today, you should know this, I rate decency more highly than kindness. Decency is the bread, kindness is the butter. Or the honey.
~ Amos Oz