Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Pressfield

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Summer Glau

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

Strom Thurmond

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Steven Weber

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

Robert Burns

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sylvia Earle

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

Sydney J. Harris

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should give us a sense of mass.

Scott Ritter

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Saxby Chambliss

Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.

Lily Tomlin

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Les Brown

Honor your commitments with integrity.

We think it's an appropriate step to take to protect the integrity of our products and the safety of our patients here in the U.S. and Canada.

Orson Scott Card

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Stephen Jay Gould

The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.

Stephen Jay Gould

If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'

Stephen Jay Gould

Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.

Stephen Jay Gould

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

It was about integrity and sticking up for each other.

Richard Wright

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Tyler Blackburn

I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.

Tyler Perry

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

Raymond Chandler

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Rick Warren

I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.

Rick Warren

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

Rick Warren

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

Ovid

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

P. C. Cast

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

Pauline Marois

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

Paul Wellstone

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Mary Daly

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.