Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Bill Delahunt

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Bill Cosby

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Ashton Kutcher

I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

Bud Selig

There is an integrity issue, and that transcends that (progress being made),

Dan Quayle

He (Gore) has a different interpretation of what integrity is all about, ... That will be an issue in this campaign.

Eddie Long

We touch a lot of people, ... This is a world-impacting ministry, and I personally get a little offended when my integrity is questioned.

Al Gore

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Billie Jean King

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Charles R. Jackson

You should never risk your integrity or your soul for any amount of money.

Charles R. Swindoll

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Ayn Rand

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Ayn Rand

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Ayn Rand

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

Ayn Rand

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

Ayn Rand

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Ayn Rand

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Ayn Rand

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

Ayn Rand

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Ayn Rand

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Ben Crenshaw

If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

Carl Sandburg

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Mike Wallace

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

Catherine Mary Stewart

Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.

Lakhdar Brahimi

men and women known for their honesty, integrity and competence.

Now that that confidentiality has been undermined, the integrity of the system as a whole is seriously in question.

Elena Kagan

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

Deepak Chopra

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

David Bowie

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.