Quotes About Integrity

By lying, we deny our friends access to reality9—and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have been solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

Funny or not, the story reveals something distasteful about Sita: She will lie when it suits her needs.

I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. 

Uno de los principales problemas del mentiroso es que debe seguir el rastro de sus mentiras.

Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

Lies beget other lies.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

The point I'm trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice

For example, we've got this one rule I hope we never give up enforcing: our buyers here in Bentonville are required to return calls from the stores first, before they return the calls of vendors or anybody else, and they are required to get back to the stores by sundown of the day they get the call.

A lot of what goes on these days with high-flying companies and these overpaid CEO's, who're really just looting from the top and aren't watching out for anybody but themselves, really upsets me. It's one of the main things wrong with American business today.

Sam wouldn't let us hedge on a price at all. Say the list price was $1.98, but we had only paid 50 cents. Initially, I would say, 'Well, it's originally $1.98, so why don't we sell it for $1.25?' And he'd say, 'No. We paid 50 cents for it. Mark it up 30 percent, and that's it. No matter what you pay for it, if we get a great deal, pass it on to the customer.' And of course that's what we did." It

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

I'm the guy who does his job," Wahlberg responds. "You must be the other guy.

You're never wrong to do the right thing

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.