Quotes About Integrity

You tell the truth and people can shit all over it... but somehow once it's said it can't be unsaid; it stays living, somewhere, in someone's heart.

So, unless you've embezzled money outright or murdered someone and want me to hide the body, I won't be getting in any deeper than I already am.

I am becoming more and more convinced that there is something wrong with the way I live. Something false about everything I do. Even when I want to do something good; I feel that it's only in order to seem a better person.

El artista no tiene ningún derecho moral para dejarse llevar a un abstracto nivel medio, para hacer que su obra sea más comprensible, más accesible. Esto no acarrearía otra cosa que la decadencia del arte, cuando en realidad esperamos su florecimiento, creemos en las posibilidades potenciales y aún no desarrolladas del artista y también en una elevación de las exigencias del público. O al menos queremos creer en todo ello.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them.

The artist has no right to an idea to which he is not socially committed, or the realisation of which could involve a dichotomy between his professional activity and the rest of his life.

Además, ejercía una profesión noble. Es verdad, cobra dinero por ello. Me gustaría saber si un hombre puede ser buen médico y buscar al mismo tiempo su propio provecho. Quizá sea posible.

While adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic high from standing up for what you believe in and being attacked for it far surpassed the comfort to be derived from that bath of praise.

I realized that what I had feared most—expulsion and derision—didn't really even hurt, not when you are standing up for what you believe.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

He that cannot reason is a fool, He that will not a bigot, He that dare not a slave.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

CEO Harry Stonecipher

The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to 'preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary', like many timeworn phrases, contains much that is true.

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

But whatever these were, it was clear that here was part of Alan that was so; that part of his reality was shaped that way.

We can be proud of our abilities, but we must be honest about our shortcomings—our ignorance as well as our mistakes.

Responsibility is something you actively agree to. You make a commitment to ensure that something is done right, but you don't necessarily have direct control over every aspect of it.

Don't blame someone or something else, or make up an excuse. Don't blame all the problems on a vendor, a programming language, management, or your coworkers.

Don't leave broken windows (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired.

Even if there's a fire raging (deadline, release date, trade show demo, etc.), you don't want to be the first one to make a mess.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.